Scale

The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

Geoffrey West 303.44 WES 2017 Beavertin Library

Great ideas. A fat book that should have been leaner - though it could have been more explicit about unsolved problems and open questions.

A couple of math goofs:


Page 119: ... "our capillaries are only 5 micrometers wide (about a hundredth of an inch), which is somewhat smaller than a hairbreadth"

An inch is 25.4 millimeters, or 25400 micrometers, so capillaries are about 0.02 hundredths of an inch.