Scale : the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies /

"Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks... Fascinated by issues of aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The re...

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Main Author:	West, Geoffrey B. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
Subjects:	Scaling (Social sciences) Science > Philosophy. Evolution (Biology) Evolution > Molecular aspects. Urban ecology (Sociology) Social sciences > Methodology. Sustainable development.