Body size and metabolism¶
Kleiber, M. (1932). Body size and metabolism. Hilgardia, 6(11), 315-353.
Cited by¶
3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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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.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Kleiber's opening page shows the paper is about basal metabolism and body size, but the readable portion states no mass^3/4 exponent, no 'floor', and nothing on cell division, mortality, or the zero lower bound.
“The statement that the basal metabolism of animals differing in size is nearly proportional to their respective body surfaces, is called the surface law.”
- 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.
Domain-specific¶
- Big O Notation
- . Numerical analysis — stating convergence and truncation rates as the step size shrinks to zero (a method converging as O(h²) is "second-order accurate"). Combinatorics — bounding the asymptotic count of structures and the growth of generating-function coefficients. Scientific scaling statements — a literal, not metaphorical, use wherever a real growth rate is bounded up to a constant: a biologist writing metabolic rate as O(M^¾)
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
“The statement that the basal metabolism of animals differing in size is nearly proportional to their respective body surfaces, is called the surface law.”
- . Numerical analysis — stating convergence and truncation rates as the step size shrinks to zero (a method converging as O(h²) is "second-order accurate"). Combinatorics — bounding the asymptotic count of structures and the growth of generating-function coefficients. Scientific scaling statements — a literal, not metaphorical, use wherever a real growth rate is bounded up to a constant: a biologist writing metabolic rate as O(M^¾)
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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