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John Tyler Bonner Quotes

1920–2019 United States

John Tyler Bonner (May 12, 1920 – February 7, 2019) was an American biologist and professor at Princeton University. He was a leading expert on cellular slime molds and their evolution and development with implications for other organisms.

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RULE 5 The abundance of organisms in nature varies with their size.

RULE 4 The rate of various living processes varies with size, such as metabolism, generation time, longevity, and the speed of locomotion.

RULE 2 Surfaces that permit diffusion of oxygen, of food, of heat in and out of the body, vary with size.

RULE 3 The division of labor (complexity) varies with size.

RULE 1 Strength varies with size.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Tyler Bonner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.