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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |