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Humans change their shape as they grow • As warm-blooded animals grow the surface to volume ratio decreases. • Effects the rate <strong>of</strong> heat transfer. • Babies have more rounded features and disproportionally large heads.
Larger Animals have: • Lower relative muscle strength • Greater stress on their bones so their bones are more likely to break • Less relative heat lost so larger animals eat proportionally less food • Lower heart rate.
Page 1 and 2: Galileo’s Square Cube Law & Why S
Page 3 and 4: Science Gone Wrong • Yet 3 & ½ c
Page 5 and 6: Misleading Experts • Giant dinosa
Page 7 and 8: What is Galileo’s Square-Cube Law
Page 9 and 10: Larger flying objects require dispr
Page 11 and 12: Consequence of being ignorant of th
Page 13 and 14: Smaller objects have more exposed a
Page 15 and 16: Larger Size Objects have: • Great
Page 17 and 18: Diffusion Rates / Cell Division •
Page 19 and 20: Something has got to give! • If y
Page 21 and 22: • Elephant has the greatest absol
Page 23 and 24: When birds get too large they can n
Page 25: Smaller Mammals have Greater Heat L
Page 29 and 30: Size & Heart Rate • Smallest anim
Page 31 and 32: Further Reading • Scaling: the Ph

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