The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology.
@article{Demetrius2006TheOO,
title={The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology.},
author={Lloyd A. Demetrius},
journal={Journal of theoretical biology},
year={2006},
volume={243 4},
pages={
455-67
},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:20092682}
}
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