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On Being the Right SizeOn Being the Right Size is a 1928 essay by J. B. S. Haldane which discusses proportions in the animal world and the essential link between the size of an animal and these systems an animal has for life. Additional recommended knowledgeThesisHaldane's thesis is that sheer size very often defines what bodily equipment an animal must have:
InfluenceThis link became known to others as Haldane's principle, being referred to as such by urban planning theorist Jane Jacobs. Another planning theorist, Christopher Alexander, refers to this principle in his theory of Independent Regions in A Pattern Language:
The conceptual metaphor to animal body complexity has been of use in energy economics and secession ideas. |
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