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On Being the Right Size" is a 1926 essay by J. B. S. Haldane which discusses proportions in the animal world and the essential link between the size of an animal and these systems an animal has for life. [1] It was published as one of Haldane's collected essays in Possible Worlds and Other Essays.
In his essay On Being the Right Size he outlines Haldane's principle, which states that the size very often defines what bodily equipment an animal must have: "Insects, being so small, do not have oxygen-carrying bloodstreams. What little oxygen their cells require can be absorbed by simple diffusion of air through their bodies.
On Being the Right Size, an essay by J. B. S. Haldane that considers the changes in the shape of animals that would be required by a large change in size. Also see above for the example of allegorical giants when scaling size. Surface-area-to-volume ratio; Kleiber's law; Bergmann's rule
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Haldane's decompression model is a mathematical model for decompression to sea level atmospheric pressure of divers breathing compressed air at ambient pressure that was proposed in 1908 by the Scottish physiologist, John Scott Haldane (2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936), [1] who was also famous for intrepid self-experimentation.
Pages in category "Works by J. B. S. Haldane" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... On Being the Right Size This page was last ...
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John Scott Haldane CH FRS [1] (/ ˈ h ɔː l d eɪ n /; 2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936) was a Scottish physician physiologist and philosopher famous for intrepid self-experimentation which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases. [2]