Power laws are scale-free by their mathematical nature, meaning they should hold equally true for large x and for small. But sometimes it's not possible to obtain data across the entire range of ...

The possibility of mathematical power laws governing the scaling of fundamental biological properties, such as metabolic rate, within a species group has been strongly suspected for almost a century.

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Power Laws During the 1930s, Kleiber1 put forward a "law"--more correctly, an empirical generalization--stating that standard metabolic rate is proportional to the three-quarters power of body mass.