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{{Infobox article
| title = Gravity Limits on the Scale of Life
| author = [[Stephen W Hurrell]]
| publication = ''Beyond Mainstream''
| date = 2019-01-30
| domain = Physics
| topics = palaeogravity, gravity, biology
| url = https://beyondmainstream.org/gravity-limits-on-the-scale-of-life/
| archive_url = https://web.archive.org/web/20260416022427/https://beyondmainstream.org/gravity-limits-on-the-scale-of-life/
| retrieved = 2026-07-23
}}

'''"Gravity Limits on the Scale of Life"''' is an article by [[Stephen W Hurrell]] published on 30 January 2019 on ''Beyond Mainstream''.

Hurrell assembles the long-established case that gravity constrains the form and size of living things: Galileo's demonstration in the ''Two New Sciences'' of 1638 that larger animals require proportionally thicker bones, J. B. S. Haldane's 1926 essay ''On Being the Right Size'', D'Arcy Thompson's conclusion in ''Growth and Form'' that bodily form is conditioned entirely by the strength of gravity, and Stephen Jay Gould's later treatment. The accepted principle is the foundation of his own argument that the largest extinct animals imply a weaker gravity.

'''[https://beyondmainstream.org/gravity-limits-on-the-scale-of-life/ Read the full article at ''Beyond Mainstream'' →]'''

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