On 21 Jul 2005 17:16:24 +0100 (BST), David Damerell
wrote:

Quoting 41 :
About BMI vs cubic law: a mouse, rat, pig, or super-morbidly obese
person is starting to approximate a cube or an oblate spheroid

But the square-cube law has nothing to do with the actual shape of the
body in question.

Dear David,

Aha! It's a law!

So that's why a tall giraffe weighs more than a shorter
elephant!

And why a twenty-foot tapeworm weighs more than a ten-foot
python!

And why I weigh more than a 600-lb gorilla!

Carl Fogel