The Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology from Genomes to Ecosystems¶
West, G. B., & Brown, J. H. (2005). The Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology from Genomes to Ecosystems: Towards a Quantitative Unifying Theory of Biological Structure and Organization. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208(9), 1575-1592.
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- Allometry and Scaling Law
- Allometry redirects thinking from "Why does this one system scale this way?" to "Why does this exponent appear so widely, and what does it reveal about fundamental constraints?" — the very framing West and Brown (2005) advance in their review of biological scaling.
This sourceComprehensive review explaining why universal quarter-power scaling exponents recur across 27 orders of magnitude and what network/geometric constraints produce them.
- Allometry redirects thinking from "Why does this one system scale this way?" to "Why does this exponent appear so widely, and what does it reveal about fundamental constraints?" — the very framing West and Brown (2005) advance in their review of biological scaling.
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