There is a great paper written by Geoffrey West called "Life's Universal Scaling Laws" http://biology.unm.edu/jhbrown/Documents/Publications/West&#...

I was under the impression he was one of the first to touch on this topic, so I find it weird he wasn't listed.

He also applied this to city growth. Which is much more interesting, considering cities aren't biological, strictly speaking.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.ht...