Geometric biology allows us to understand the dynamics of how living things convert energy flows into mass, at all scales of biological organisation.
The size and shape (together, the ‘geometry’) of organisms ultimately determine these flows.
The Geometric Theory of Biology allows us to predict how things function, grow, and change; be they tumours, schools of fish, or whole forests.
New research suggests temperature is not the only environmental factor affecting the future energy needs of cold-blooded animals.
Published in Nature Climate Change.
Published in Ecology and Evolution.
George Jarvis and PhD supervisors Craig White and Dustin Marshall have found that the same theories predicting hermaphroditism and self-fertilisation in plants can also be applied to animals, and furthermore that strong competition among siblings for resources (or among gametes for fertilisation) may drive the evolution of hermaphroditism in both.
Published in Evolution.
Reproduction is perhaps the only truly unambiguous measure of fitness and yet we measure it in different ways. PhD student, Sam Ginther, is interested in the energetic costs of reproduction and wondered how feasible it would be to collate reproduction data for a wide range of species. Could he translate the existing data into a consistent and biologically relevant measure of reproductive mass per year?
Published in Global Ecology and Biogeography.
Published in Evolutionary Applications.
When biologists try to unravel deep mysteries of life, we too tend to reach for physics. But our new research shows physics may not always have the answers to questions of biology.
Published in Science.
Centre for Geometric Biology 