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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.
In his discussion Haldane writes that the substitution cost, if it is paid by juvenile deaths, "usually involves a number of deaths equal to about 10 or 20 times the number in a generation" – the minimum being the population size (= "the number in a generation") and rarely being 100 times that number. Haldane assumes 30 to be the mean value. [5]
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
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 ...
(The Center Square) – Below is the text of Gov. J.B. Pritzker's State of the State and Budget Address. *Remarks as Prepared for Delivery* Speaker Welch, President Harmon, Minority Leader ...
2 Linked copy of essay is missing ... 4 Possible conflation with R.B. Haldane's principle. 2 comments. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: On Being the Right Size ...
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