Lucas Coelho

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We just saw that a cat that is 100 times heavier than a mouse requires only about 32 times as much energy to sustain it even though it has approximately 100 times as many cells—a classic example of an economy of scale resulting from the essential nonlinear nature of Kleiber’s law.
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
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