... that metabolic allometry arises as a consequence of the optimisation of growth and reproduction to maximise fitness within a finite life. Our theory is free of physical geometric constraints that limit the possibilities available to evolution, and we therefore argue that metabolic allometry can be explained...

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.... It is unclear how the dogs acquired the complex perception and control necessary to exhibit the observed behaviour. The model may be used to investigate whether animals adopt energetically optimised behaviour in any similarly constrained ballistic task. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected]...

... optimisation Until recently it was thought that the colour vision of all mammals except primates was very limited. In order to have colour vision, an animal must possess at least two types of photoreceptor that differ in their absorption spectra; that is, in their sensitivity to different...