A General Model for the Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1997-04-04

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.276.5309.122PMID 9082983
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