Surface-Mass Ratio, Paleoclimate and Heat Sterility
- 1 November 1945
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 79 (785) , 561-567
- https://doi.org/10.1086/281295
Abstract
Ectothermic animals increase in size in warmer climates; this is a corollary of Berg-mann''s principle for the endotherms. The extreme bulk of extinct reptiles thus probably represented a response to temperatures increasingly higher until adverse effects on [male] germ plasm led to sterility and thus to extinction.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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