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Why the bigger live longer and travel farther: animals, vehicles, rivers and the winds

Here we show that constructal-law physics unifies the design of animate and inanimate movement by requiring that larger bodies move farther, and their movement on the landscape last longer. The life span of mammals must scale as the body mass (M) raised to the power 1/4, and the distance traveled du...

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Autor principal: Bejan, Adrian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22924107
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00594