Leading on from last week's discussion of universal scaling laws within Nature, brings us to yet another seemingly universal phenomenon; a recurrent and predictable embedded pattern, formulated and traditionally associated with the experimental agriculturalist Max Kleiber. His theory relates to the apparent predictable ¾ power laws where metabolic rate and mass are plotted for a…
Everything Grows (evolves?) according to the universal growth curve
Continuing on from last week's focus on D’Arcy Thompson’s alternative evolutionary understanding - universal scaling laws, which are finding strong scientific support in more recent times, particularly within the field of physics and its application to biological systems, as noted previously: D'Arcy Thompson's belief that a broader approach to the bigger questions would produce exciting,…
