Recently, there has been a flurry of excitement in ecology concerning the resurgence of allometry and its associated scaling laws going under the name macroecology The 20th century works on allometry by Huxley [2], Needham [3], Laird [4], and Medawar [5], have formed a basis for ontogenic studies of large numbers of fauna, which ultimately has informed this recent interest. It is reasonable to think that the plethora of current works on experimental physiology using allometry is a continuation of the tradition of searching for the "Holy Grail" or Bauplan, the foundation of organic form and metabolic function.
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