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On size and life
- Title
- On size and life / Thomas A. McMahon, John Tyler Bonner.
- Author
- McMahon, Thomas A., 1943-1999.
- Publication
- New York : Scientific American Library : Distributed by W.H. Freeman, ©1983.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bonner, John Tyler.
- Description
- xiii, 255 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color); 22 x 24 cm
- Summary
- Analyzes why size appears to impose specific restrictions on shape (and shape on size).
- Uniform Title
- Scientific American Library series ; no. 7.
- Subject
- Body size
- Life (Biology)
- Morphology (Animals)
- Plant morphology
- Human beings > Constitution
- Animal Population Groups > growth & development
- Animals
- Body Constitution
- Plant Development
- 42.62 animal morphology, anatomy and embryology
- Human beings > Constitution
- Body size
- Plant morphology
- Constitution physique
- Biologie
- Körpergröße
- Dimensions
- Natural selection
- Evolutionary biology
- Corps > Grandeur
- Vie (biologie)
- Animaux > Morphologie (biologie)
- Plantes > Morphologie (biologie)
- Botany > Anatomy
- Körpergrösse
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [248]-250.
- Contents
- Preface -- The natural history of size -- The physics of dimensions -- The biology of dimensions -- On being large -- On being small -- The ecology of size.
- ISBN
- 0716750007
- 9780716750000
- LCCN
- 83016472
- OCLC
- ocm09894489
- 9894489
- SCSB-612533
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library