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In West, Brown, and Enquist's model, the maximally efficient network that serves every part of a body has a fractal structure, showing the same geometry at different scales.
Kozlowski is the co-author of a theory that relates metabolic rate to cell size and the amount of DNA an organism has, one of several alternative explanations of the scaling of metabolic rate published since West, Brown, and Enquist's model.
Whether this fit truly captures the physical and chemical mechanisms underlying the patterns remains to be seen; Robinson hopes that criticism can strengthen West, Brown, and Enquist's model, perhaps leading to a new, improved theory.
West, Brown, and Enquist's theory is based on the structure of biological distribution networks, such as blood vessels in vertebrates and xylem in plants.
On the other hand, he says, West, Brown, and Enquist's model seems a plausible template for designing an organism, and its predictions fit real-world data remarkably well.