books.google.es - It is generally recognized that larger animals eat more, live longer, have larger offspring, and so on; but it is unusual to see these commonplace observations as a basis for scientific biology. A large number of empirically based relationships describe biological rates as simple functions of body size;...http://books.google.es/books/about/The_Ecological_Implications_of_Body_Size.html?hl=es&id=OYVxiZgTXWsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Ecological Implications of Body Size
