Mark Gerstein

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that they scale exponentially rather than as a power law. Consequently, the processes that govern the weather and the life history of plants and animals are exponentially sensitive to small changes in the temperature at which they operate. I remind you that a 2°C rise in average temperature leads to a whopping 20 percent increase in these rates.
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
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