By the way, there is a well-written and thought-provoking essay by Steven Jay Gould about the relationship between the size of animals and their shape. http://

By the way, there is a well-written and thought-provoking essay by Steven Jay Gould about the relationship between the size of animals and their shape. http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/size_and_shape.html http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/size_and_shape.html . He mentions Galileo as the first one to comment on this!