Saturday, July 19, 2008

Distribution Of Creatures Great And Small Can Be Predicted Mathematically

ScienceDaily -- In studying how animals change size as they evolve, biologists have unearthed several interesting patterns. For instance, most species are small, but the largest members of a taxonomic group -- such as the great white shark, the Komodo dragon, or the African elephant -- are often thousands or millions of times bigger than the typical species.

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