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BOOK REVIEWEDWhy Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales

by John Tyler Bonner

Princeton University Press: 2006. 176 pp. $16.95, £9.95

I used to think that the story of the mother who starts a letter to her grown-up son with: "Dear son, I am writing this letter slowly because I know you cannot read fast," was just funny. But after reading the tiny book Why Size Matters by John Tyler Bonner twice, I now realize that the story had a deeper meaning than had first met my eye.

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