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  • maryw commented on the word design cost

    flying or walking or chasing is not the only cost. Add in an energy cost in building the organism from a single-celled egg to the reproductive adult; this is called the design cost. How much does it cost (in calories) to build an elephant or a bird or a dog? Is that a different cost (in calories) than building an earthworm? Of course it is. And it costs much more to build a hundred-pound wolf than it does to build a thirty-pound dog.
    Raymond Coppinger &nLorna Coppinger, What Is a Dog? (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2016), p. 89

    February 21, 2025