Life's universal scaling laws

Physics Today

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 36-42

  West, Geoffrey B ^a,b   Brown, James H ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DATA ACQUISITION; DNA; GENES; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RNA;

INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MENDELIAN LAWS OF INHERITANCE; METABOLIC RATES; SCALING LAWS;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

EID: 4544316616     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1809090     Document Type: Review

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