The link between body size and lifehistory characteristics has led to a large number of studies that have in-vestigated the nature of these relationships. [3][4][5][6][7][8] Life-history characteristics often scale with body weight in a predictable way so that body size information can be used to pr
Teeth, brains, and primate life histories
โ Scribed by Laurie R. Godfrey; K.E. Samonds; W.L. Jungers; M.R. Sutherland
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Volume
- 114
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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