Medawar's growth energy experiment, revisited: along a Brownian path

DOI10.1016/0895-7177(90)90003-6MaRDI QIDQ2276901zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter L. Antonelli

Publication date 1990

Published in Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0895-7177(90)90003-6

zbMATH Keywords

animal tissuesBrownian pathgrowth energyMedawar's derivation of the Gompertz biomass growth law for tissue growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Developmental biology, pattern formation (92C15) Physiology (general) (92C30) Physiological, cellular and medical topics (92C99)

Review text

The author gives a probabilistic version of Medawar's derivation of the Gompertz biomass growth law for tissue growth. He obtains the Gompertz law in terms of the expectation of the logarithm of biomass and, under the assumption of zero measurement error, formulas for variance as well. He also shows how to analytically formulate and interpret Medawar's notion of ``growth energy.

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