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Add Interesting Papers


A group-curated list of papers and other relevant material. This is a grab-bag brain-dump of everything we might want to cover, and from here we can select a specific reading(s)/discussion point each week. 

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Collaborative Groups as Organisms

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    A General Model for the Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology
    • Geoffrey B. West
    • James H. Brown
    • and Brian J. Enquist
    Science 4 April 1997276 (5309), 122-126. [DOI:10.1126/science.276.5309.122]
  2.  

    The Fourth Dimension of Life: Fractal Geometry and Allometric Scaling of Organisms
    • Geoffrey B. West
    • James H. Brown
    • and Brian J. Enquist
    Science 4 June 1999284 (5420), 1677-1679. [DOI:10.1126/science.284.5420.1677]

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