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Specialist books : Size is everything

1 February 1997

A welcome reprint of a Dover classic is William Calder鈥檚 Size, Function and
Life History (Constable/Dover, 拢14.95, ISBN 0 486 6919 8). It鈥檚 all about
allometry鈥攈ow the size of an animal affects every aspect of its life. Here
you have a compendium of facts on how geometry influences biology.

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