The natural selection of metabolism and mass selects allometric transitions from prokaryotes to mammals

DOI10.1016/j.tpb.2017.08.005zbMath1393.92040OpenAlexW2548850625MaRDI QIDQ1746102

Lars Witting

Publication date: 24 April 2018

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1101/084624

zbMATH Keywords

evolutionmetabolismallometrybody masslife historymajor transitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40)

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