Talk:On Being the Right Size

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This article is obviously copied from elsewhere on the net. It was all typed in one edit by 66.116.71.28?
 * I don't think so. It also has a bad title and, I feel, waffles.--Honeycake 17:49, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Linked copy of essay is missing text
The 3rd paragraph in the linked copy of the essay has a few words deleted. A version containing the full text is here: http://www.physlink.com/Education/essay_haldane.cfm —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.164.193.248 (talk) 06:50, 29 January 2007 (UTC).

The current linked version of the essay apparently still has errors. There are some typos ("worm of rotifer" instead of "worm or rotifer" is one). Most severe is the garbled seventh paragraph, beginning "Now if its shape is unaltered..." The sequence in this paragraph, "Comparative anatomy is largely the story of the struggle to example, while vertebrates carry the oxygen from the gills or lungs all over the body in the blood, insects take air directly to every part of their body by tiny blind tubes called tracheae which open to the surface at many different points." seems to have missing portions. A better link for the text of the essay may be http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html. At that site the sentence in question reads, "Comparative anatomy is largely the story of the struggle to increase surface in proportion to volume. Some of the methods of increasing the surface are useful up to a point, but not capable of a very wide adaptation. For example, while vertebrates carry the oxygen from the gills or lungs all over the body in the blood, insects take air directly to every part of their body by tiny blind tubes called tracheae which open to the surface at many different points." JMB3501 (talk) 18:42, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Discussion of Political Commentary at end of essay
Perhaps a dissection of the final paragraph would be appropriate to highlite the political view of the author. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RealAlmo (talk • contribs) 18:45, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Possible conflation with R.B. Haldane's principle
I found a good citation for Jane Jacob's usage of Haldane's principle, which I added in the article, but there is another principle titled Haldane principle which also happens to be used in civic contexts. Furthermore, there is a separate, more specific, Haldane's rule (by J.B.S.) which is used by biologists. If you Google "Haldane's principle", it appears the Internet is confused too, with circular citations, which I suspect go back to this Wikipedia entry. Philosophistry (talk) 16:45, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Also, the segment that had the "citation needed" attached to it was lifted from Haldane's principle, which I've since removed, since it referred to Haldane principle (no apostrophe). Philosophistry (talk) 17:05, 3 February 2022 (UTC)