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Re: scaling laws



On Friday, October 10, 2003 12:38 PM, Hugh Haskell wrote:

The immediate conclusion is that
the volume of a given shape increases faster than the area.
In fact, the ratio of the two (volume to area) increases and
some new constant times the same length. Which immediately
answers why an elephant's heart doesn't have to beat as fast
as a mouse's.

It doesn't appear to me that this "immediately" answers the
question of why an elephant's heart doesn't have to beat faster.
Don't you have to know something about metabolism? Or am I
missing a more "immediate" connection?

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