ABSTRACT
Everything in nature is scaled to the demands of the environment. In size and function, indi viduals and species scale with habitat constraints, food supplies, climate, and social interactions (Vogel, 1988). Internal scaling occurs as well, with metabolic rate, respiration, brain functioning, and behavior scaling precisely with each other, as well as with body size and the environment (McMahon &; Bon ner, 1983). The world is a grand pattern of ho meostasis, with organisms scaling to their envi ronment, to their internal metabolism, and to each other.
