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VoilaVoilaWashington t1_j2fhenh wrote

Yes, but it also means we need to eat more.

Take two animals with identical metabolisms, one's 10kg and one's 100kg.

If both eat 0.1mg per day of a toxin, then yeah, the bigger creature will do better.

But if the food contains 0.1 mg/kg of food, and the big creature needs to eat 10x more food to survive, then it balances out.

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