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Complex systems

Complex systems

The one scale that rules them all

18 May 2017
Taken from the May 2017 issue of Physics World

Jennifer Ouellette reviews Scale: the Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West

Scaling laws place an upper limit on the size that an animal or city could evolve to
Impossible monster: scaling laws place an upper limit on the size that an animal, or city, or company, could evolve to. (Courtesy: Universal/Wing Nut Films/REX/Shutterstock)
After being found guilty of heresy by the Catholic Church, Galileo Galilei was infamously placed und

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Jennifer Ouellette is a Los Angeles, US-based science writer and author of four popular-science books
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