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A Reassessment of Bergmann's Rule in Modern Humans

It is widely accepted that modern humans conform to Bergmann's rule, which holds that body size in endothermic species will increase as temperature decreases. However, there are reasons to question the reliability of the findings on which this consensus is based. One of these is that the main s...

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Autores principales: Foster, Frederick, Collard, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3756069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24015229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072269