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All Life Uses Same Amount of Energy Relative To Size

All Life Uses Same Amount of Energy Relative To Size

No matter whether you’re talking the size of elephants or the size of bacteria, a new study proposes that, pound for pound, all living things’ at-rest metabolisms use similar amounts of energy. Though living things vary greatly in complexity and size, their energy usage falls between 3 and 90 watts per kilogram of biomass. For [...] [...more]

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