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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2017.
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| Summary: | "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 result was astonishing, and changed science, creating a new understanding of energy use and metabolism: West found that despite the riotous diversity in the sizes of mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other... West's work has been gaming changing for biologists, but then he made the even bolder move of exploring his work's applicability...and applied...[it] to the business and social world."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 479 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-464) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781594205583 1594205582 |