De Martino, S.; De Siena, S. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) 18, pp. 4302-4307
Allometry is crucial in biology; scaling relations are implied in laws of growth of living systems. The self similarity of Gompertzian growths of biological organisms plays a key role, in this regard, in biological similitude. The origin of allometric relationships and values of the scaling...