A welcome reprint of a Dover classic is William Calder’s Size, Function and
Life History (Constable/Dover, £14.95, ISBN 0 486 6919 8). It’s all about
allometry—how 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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