Longevity and Aging in Vertebrate Evolution
- 1 August 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 28 (8) , 497-501
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1307295
Abstract
Mammalian lifespan has a close allometric association with brain weight, body weight, metabolic rate, and body temperature. Longevity, then, is goverThis publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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