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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.
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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
J. B. S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" from Possible Worlds; Thomas Henry Huxley, "On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals", "On a Piece of Chalk" Francis Galton, "The Classification of Human Ability" from Hereditary Genius; Claude Bernard, "Experimental Considerations Common to Living Things and Inorganic Bodies"
"On Being the Right Size", an essay by J. B. S. Haldane; The Explanation of Organic Diversity by Mark Ridley "The Importance of the Nervous System in the Evolution of Animal Flight" by John Maynard Smith; Man in the Universe by Fred Hoyle; On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Thompson; The Meaning of Evolution by G. G. Simpson; Trilobite! by Richard Fortey
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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]