Body size and metabolism¶
Kleiber, M. (1932). Body size and metabolism. Hilgardia, 6(11), 315-353.
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Primes¶
- Irreducible Floor
- Biology and monetary policy: basal metabolic rate, minimum cell-division time, and baseline mortality, and the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates, are structural floors that demand structural rather than incremental moves to shift.
This sourceEstablishes basal metabolic rate scaling (Kleiber's law, BMR proportional to mass^3/4), the structural floor on an organism's energy expenditure.
- Biology and monetary policy: basal metabolic rate, minimum cell-division time, and baseline mortality, and the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates, are structural floors that demand structural rather than incremental moves to shift.
Mechanisms¶
- Log-Log Scaling Check
- The pattern rhymes with allometric scaling in biology, where metabolic rate scales with body mass
This sourceShows that metabolic rate scales with body mass according to a fractional power law.
- The pattern rhymes with allometric scaling in biology, where metabolic rate scales with body mass
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