Figure 6.

Application of the renormalization approach to the allometric scaling law in mammals. We here assumed that the relationship between BMR and the proper proportion of the renormalized organ weights in human holds for all mammals. Based on the optimized organ weights W_k(r) of a reference male (Elia, 1992; Snyder et al., 1975), we analyzed how organ weights would behave when body weights were changed from 1 to 800 kg. We calculated the organ weights W_k in each step of body weight change and then the metabolic rate BMR = ∑_kW_k × msBMR_k. As a result, the obtained BMR was found to reproduce the observed data (de Magalhães & Costa, 2009)