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q-bio.OT2005
Towards a Quantitative, Metabolic Theory for Mammalian Sleep
Van M. Savage, Geoffrey B. West
Sleep is one of the most noticeable and widespread phenomena occurring in multicellular animals. Nevertheless, no consensus for a theory of its origins has emerged. In particular,…
physics.bio-ph2002★ 1 cited
Red herrings and rotten fish
Geoffrey B. West, Van M. Savage, James Gillooly +3
A longstanding problem in biology has been the origin of pervasive quarter-power allometric scaling laws that relate many characteristics of organisms to body mass (M) across the e…