Size and complexity among multicellular organisms
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Size and complexity among multicellular organisms
The diversity of specialized cell types (‘complexity’) is estimated for a wide range of multicellular organisms. Complexity increases with size, independently of phylogeny. This is interpreted in economic terms as the consequence of a greater degree of cooperative division of labour within larger entities. The rate of increase of complexity with size is less in the case of a cooperative divisio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0024-4066
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1996.0108