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What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: Scaling: Why Is Animal Size So Important?User Review - Caleb - GoodreadsThe first of many books I meant to read completely (or at all) in college. This one had a few too many equations. I must have understood it better back then. Maybe I should've read it with my notes Read full review Review: Scaling: Why Is Animal Size So Important?User Review - Lynda - GoodreadsReadable, lively popular science look at the impact of area being a square while volume is a cube function. Spoils the credibility of giant insects from the B-movies of the 60s but worth it. Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesallometric equations Baluchitherium bird flight birds and mammals blood body temperature body weight bones brain calculated capillary cardiac output confidence limits constraints decreases diameter diffusing capacity diffusion dinosaurs elephant energy eutherian eutherian mammals exoskeleton factorial scope Figure fish flight fraction function gill heart heartbeat frequency heat production hemoglobin hemoglobin concentration higher hummingbirds increasing body incubation independent of body insects jump kcal land mammals large animals linear dimensions lower lung mammalian mammals mammals and birds marsupials mass exponent maximal maximum measured metabolic power mitochondria ml O2 mouse muscle organism oxygen affinity oxygen consumption passerine pore pressure pterosaur range rate of oxygen ratio red cells regression line related to body relationship relative respiration respiratory resting metabolic rate Reynolds number scaling shrews skeleton slope small animal species specific metabolic rate speed surface area swimming Table tidal volume tion tissue unit variable vertebrates viscosity volume warm-blooded whales Popular passagesReferences to this bookFrom other books
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