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using published and unpublished data.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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