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IN a recent article1, Von Bertalanffy developed a complete theory relating growth to metabolism, sex, etc. The basic formula “which contains no hypothetical elements’ on which the theory rests is given as with the explanation ”In words: the change in body weight y is given by the difference between synthesis and destruction of building materials; according to general physiological experience, these processes will be proportional to some powers, n, m, respectively, of the body weight; η and x. are constants of anabolism and catabolism".
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MAYER, J. Problems of Organic Growth. Nature 164, 65 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164065b0
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