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An Allometric Scaling Law For Understanding Mammalian Sleep, Ji-Huan He Apr 2008

An Allometric Scaling Law For Understanding Mammalian Sleep, Ji-Huan He

Ji-Huan He

An allometric scaling law is established for explaining sleep time per day which scales with brain mass. The theoretical prediction agrees well with Savage and West’s experimental data.