Scaling of the extended phenotype: convergent energetics from diverse spider web geometries.

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Organisms capture energy to support growth, survival and reproduction in diverse ways. Larger metazoans require less energy per unit time and mass than smaller ones. Thus, structures animals build to capture energy need not scale isometrically with body size. Web-building spiders use silk structures of diverse geometries to capture energy, including two-dimensional orbs in some families or three-dimensional...

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