Master Equation for all life processes?

[Steve Johnson <***>]

 A story on Science News:
 
 
 Science News recently wrote that some simple mathematical equations, known as quarter-power scaling laws, can explain the metabolic rates of living organisms. For example, "an animal's metabolic rate appears to be proportional to mass to the 3/4 power." And this "3/4-power law appears to hold sway from microbes to whales, creatures of sizes ranging over a mind-boggling 21 orders of magnitude."
 
 Here are full text links:
 
 Ecology's big, hot idea: 
 
 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=535575
 
 http://www.primidi.com/2005/02/21.html
 
 http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050212/bob9.asp

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