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The Allometry of Growth and Reproduction (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,617
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The Allometry of Growth and Reproduction (Hardcover, New): Michael J Reiss

The Allometry of Growth and Reproduction (Hardcover, New)

Michael J Reiss

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The technique of allometry investigates the effects of size on such variables as food intake, energy requirements, growth rates and age at first reproduction. This book, now available in paperback, brings together much of what is known about the consequences of size and provides a new and mathematically rigorous framework within which many quantitative predictions are made and tested using published and unpublished data. New explanations are proposed for many previously unexplained phenomena such as why in some species females are thousands of times heavier than males, whereas in no species are males more than about eight times heavier than females. The models presented afford a new synthesis of the effects of size and open up more pathways for further theoretical investigation and experimental testing. Care has been taken to give verbal presentations of all the mathematical conclusions to ensure that the text is widely intelligible.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 1989
First published: 1989
Authors: Michael J Reiss
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-36091-3
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Developmental biology
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LSN: 0-521-36091-9
Barcode: 9780521360913

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