Scaling of physiological processes in homeothermic animals.

b is the slope of a straight-line plot and a is the Y-intercept.1 From a century's worth of exponential growth of raw data that could give "a sense of being engulfed by a flood tide ... confused by complexity" (120), allometric equations provide an orderly reduction to formal statements from which patterns and parallels emerge. Ultimately we seek to identify the physical constraints and causes that explain the empirical exponents.

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