Biology: Fractal Geometry Gets the Measure of Life's Scales
- 4 April 1997
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 276 (5309) , 34
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.276.5309.34
Abstract
Living organisms come in a vast range of sizes--from microbes to whales, they span at least 21 orders of magnitude. For more than a century, biologists have been trying to figure out how body size and physiology are related, but so far they have come up with a big conundrum. Now, on page 122, a team of researchers reports a new mathematical model--a unique combination of the dynamics of energy transport and the mathematics of fractal geometry--that may finally help solve the puzzle.Keywords
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