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Physiological essay on Gulliver’s Travels: a correction after three centuries

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, published in 1726, was analyzed from the viewpoint of scaling in comparative physiology. According to the original text, the foods of 1724 Lilliputians, tiny human creatures, are needed for Gulliver, but the author found that those of 42 Lilliputians and of 1/42...

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Autor principal: Kuroki, Toshio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Japan 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6373404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30610552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12576-018-00655-4