Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

by Geoffrey West

“metabolic rate scales as a power law whose exponent is very close to the number ¾.”

percent. The number 4 therefore plays a fundamental and almost magically universal role in all of life.13

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Thus a small dog could probably carry on his back two or three dogs of his own size; but I believe that a horse could not carry even one of his own

Unlike the cubic scaling law, the conventional definition of the BMI has no theoretical or conceptual underpinning and is therefore of dubious statistical significance.

well i never. is bmi the new myers briggs?

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