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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 978-1780225593
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 303.44WES
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name West, Geoffrey
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Scale
Remainder of title the universal laws of life and death in organisms, cities, and companies
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2018
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 479p. : ill; 19 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-464) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in. The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term "complexity" can be misleading, however, because what makes West's discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly complex and diverse phenomena of living systems, including our bodies, our cities and our businesses. 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 sizesof mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other. If you know the size of a mammal, you can use scaling laws to learn everything from how much food it eats per day, what its heart-rate is, how long it will take to mature, its lifespan, and so on. Furthermore, the efficiency of the mammal's circulatory systems scales up precisely based on weight: if you compare a mouse, a human and an elephant on a logarithmic graph, you find with every doubling of average weight, a species gets 25% more efficient--and lives 25% longer. This speaks to everything from how long we can expect to live to how many hours of sleep we need. Fundamentally, he has proven, the issue has to do with the fractal geometry of the networks that supply energy and remove waste from the organism's body
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Scaling (Social sciences)
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma   01/17/2025   303.44WES URD002059 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book