Mark Gerstein

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In Figure 1 you can readily see that for every four orders of magnitude increase in mass (along the horizontal axis), metabolic rate increases by only three orders of magnitude (along the vertical axis), so the slope of the straight line is ¾, the famous exponent in Kleiber’s law.
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
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