The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sus-tainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

摘要

Curiosity is perhaps the greatest gateway for many of us to dive deeper into science and mathematics. Such amazing observations as an ant carrying 50 times its own body weight or running at a speed of 800 of its own body lengths per minute are mind-boggling, especially in comparison to our own human experiences. Naturally, we might wonder what's stopping us from carrying 50 other people at once or running a mile in just over a minute? Questions like this get me all jazzed up, and in particular, thinking about how performance scales with relative size among all living things.