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  2. Square–cube law - Wikipedia

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    Its volume would be multiplied by the cube of 2 and become 8 m 3. The original cube (1 m sides) has a surface area to volume ratio of 6:1. The larger (2 m sides) cube has a surface area to volume ratio of (24/8) 3:1. As the dimensions increase, the volume will continue to grow faster than the surface area. Thus the squarecube law.

  3. Allometry - Wikipedia

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    Power law – Functional relationship between two quantities (also known as a scaling law) Rensch's rule – A biological rule concerning sexual size dimorphism; Tree allometry – Quantitative relations between some key characteristic dimensions of trees; Urban scaling – Quantitative relations between urban characteristics and city ...

  4. On Being the Right Size - Wikipedia

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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]

  5. Surface-area-to-volume ratio - Wikipedia

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    As an example, a cube with sides of length 1 cm will have a surface area of 6 cm 2 and a volume of 1 cm 3. The surface to volume ratio for this cube is thus = = . For a given shape, SA:V is inversely proportional to size.

  6. Molyneux's problem - Wikipedia

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    Different shaped stress balls, including a cube, a star, and a sphere Molyneux's problem is a thought experiment in philosophy [ 1 ] concerning immediate recovery from blindness . It was first formulated by William Molyneux , and notably referred to in John Locke 's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689).

  7. Kleiber's law - Wikipedia

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    Kleiber's law, like many other biological allometric laws, is a consequence of the physics and/or geometry of circulatory systems in biology. [5] Max Kleiber first discovered the law when analyzing a large number of independent studies on respiration within individual species. [2]

  8. new yorker - images.huffingtonpost.com

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    As he said, “Academia and law enforcement are at opposite ends of the spectrum. They like theories, we like results.” Therefore, when David Kennedy, a pro-fessor in the anthropology department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in New York City, came to Cincinnati in the fall of 2006 to pitch a program he had devised to

  9. Power law - Wikipedia

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    The distributions of a wide variety of physical, biological, and human-made phenomena approximately follow a power law over a wide range of magnitudes: these include the sizes of craters on the moon and of solar flares, [2] cloud sizes, [3] the foraging pattern of various species, [4] the sizes of activity patterns of neuronal populations, [5] the frequencies of words in most languages ...