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Bergmann’s rule is a “just-so” story of human body size

Carl Bergmann was an astute naturalist and physiologist. His ideas about animal size and shape were important advances in the pre-Darwinian nineteenth century. Bergmann’s rule claims that that in cold climates, large body mass increases the ratio of volume-to-surface area and provides for maximum me...

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Autores principales: Bogin, Barry, Hermanussen, Michael, Scheffler, Christiane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9003984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35414036
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40101-022-00287-z