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On Being the Right Size

As a matter of fact the height to which an animal can jump is more nearly independent of its size than proportional to it. A flea can jump about two feet, a man ...

On Being the Right Size - Wikipedia

"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 ...

/ON BEING THE RIGHT SIZE - ArvindGuptaToys

And until psychology is a science, scientific method cannot be applied in politics. In chemical physiology we are after two rather different things. The first ...

2 On being the right size, revisited - Aaron Clauset

2 On being the right size, revisited. The problem with engineering metaphors in molecular biology. Daniel J. Nicholson. In 1926, Haldane published an essay ...

On Being the Right Size | The Engines of Our Ingenuity

In it, he asks why mice are small and whales are big. More generally, he asks, is size an accident, or is there a good reason? It's easy to imagine a human ...

On Being and On Being the Right Size, Part 2 - Air/Light

Rob Bowman moved to California eight years ago from Denver, his longtime home and setting for his in-progress novel Like the Animal.

On Being the Right Size - JBS Haldane on size and structure

In On Being the Right Size, biologist JBS Haldane writes that each animal, as a product of chance mutation and natural selection over ...

On Being The Right Size : J. B. S. Haldane - Internet Archive

A wonderful essay on analysis of scaling and size of animals from a physical perspective and implications of change in size.

On Being the Right Size - jstor

2.-Response surface of the optimum thorax length on the fecundity coefficient, K, and the fecundity exponent, y. increase in ...

Research: On Being the Right Size - CRN

In 1928, the British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane wrote a now famous essay entitled On Being the Right Size, where he noted, “The most obvious differences ...

On Being the Right Size, Revisited - NOVA Blogs

In 1926, Haldane published an essay titled 'On Being the Right Size', in which he argued that the size of an organism fundamentally shapes its way of life.

On Being the Right Size and Other Essays by J.B.S. Haldane

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On Being the Right Size | The American Naturalist: Vol 118, No 3

This prediction is shown to be correct. Reasonable variation in parameter values can account for much of the size range observed in the genus Drosophila. It ...

On Being the Right Size by Andrew Haldane, Philip Booth :: SSRN

On Being the Right Size. Journal of Financial Perspectives, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2014. 18 Pages Posted: 29 Nov 2017 Last revised: 30 Nov 2017. See all articles by ...

On Being and On Being the Right Size, Part 5 - Air/Light

“Two or three termites in a chamber,” he explains, “will begin to pick up pellets and move them from place to place, but nothing comes of it; nothing is built.

On Being The Right Size And Other Essays by J.B.S. Haldane

These essays are all interesting and especially the titular one 'On Being the Right Size' where Haldane states that for every type of animal there is a most ...

On being the right size: antibody repertoire formation in the mouse ...

School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Randwick, 2052, Australia. [email protected]. 2 Garvan ...

On being the right size - Earth Times

Those house sparrows, Passer domesticus, that had a skeletally-bigger body had shorter telomeres. These telomeres are the chromosome ends that ...

Haldane's Rule of the Right Size - Edge.org

But if similarly dropped, “… a rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.” So wrote J.B.S. Haldane in his 1926 essay "On Being the Right Size." Size ...