Universal fractal time of biological growth
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The West-Brown-Enquist universal growth curve has been mapped on the power law function with the time-dependent scaling factor and exponent representing the temporal fractal dimension of the growth of species like mammals, birds, fish, crustaceans, regardless of taxon, cellular metabolic rate and body size. The results obtained permit formulation of three important rules governing the biological growth: (i) growing biological systems possess its own, internal, universal fractal time, which differs from the linear scalar time of the external observer, (ii) fractal structure of the universal time is lost during growth, (iii) the universal growth belongs to the class of macroscopic non-local quasi-quantum phenomena.
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