Titlebook: Size and Scaling in Primate Biology; William L. Jungers Book 1985 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1985 anatomy.behavior.biology.e

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,Tooth Size—Body Size Scaling in a Human Population, the relationship that such intrapopulational scaling might have to the explanation and general understanding of the tooth size—body size relationship. In the process of this examination, focus is brought to the concept of allometry, its basis in fact and theory, the question of whether it is a desc

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Comparative Energetics and Mechanics of Locomotion,ly 60 g) to the pony-size . (approximately 200 kg); some walk, trot, and gallop quadrupedally, others walk and run bipedally, some brachiate, some hop, some even use their tails during locomotion. Yet, taken as a whole, animals of all classes represent a much larger size range, and have the same and

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Body Size and Limb Design in Primates and Other Mammals,res such as possession of nails or claws, but with quantitative ones, the dimensions of bones and muscles. It is not concerned with differences between primates, but looks for design features shared by primates as a whole, irrespective of body size and taxonomic group.

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Body Size and Scaling of Limb Proportions in Primates,cales at over 2500 kg (Eisenberg, 1981). Despite such marked differences in adult body mass, Alexander . (1979) report that the lengths and diameters of limb bones in a shrew-to-elephant size series scale surprisingly close to geometric similarity; i.e., linear dimensions are almost proportional to

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Influence of Size and Proportions on the Biomechanics of Brachiation,own phenomenon. We showed that longer arms increase traveling velocity in arm-swinging locomotion. In addition, it provides a quicker start and reduces the muscle force necessary to lift the body, i.e., reduces the energetic cost of locomotion. This seems to provide a fine explanation for why gibbon

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Intraspecific, Interspecific, Metabolic, and Phylogenetic Scaling in Platyrrhine Primates, in shape that occur in conjunction with changes in body size separately from those independent of body size change, the latter often a result of significant new adaptations (Aiello, 1981; Gould, 1975).

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Allometric Scaling in the Dentition of Primates and Insectivores,ize, and none can be fully understood without considering size. Here we outline the relationship of tooth size to body size in frugivorous and folivorous primates. For comparison we shall also consider the relationship of tooth size to body size in insectivorous mammals.