Body weight/height relationship: Exponen
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Maciej Henneberg; John Hugg; Emily J. Townsend
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Article
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1989
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Regression of weight (W) on height (H) in all higher primates is of exponential form W = a \* exp(H . b) and is uniform for both nongrowing adults and growing children. Parameter a values are always close to 2.0 and b to 0.02. The exponential equation fits ontogenetic data better than the traditiona