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"Big-Boned" or Biology? How Your Skeleton Actually Effects Your Body Size

When someone describes themselves as “big-boned,” they’re usually trying to explain why they appear larger even when eating ...
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Body size

Mentioning body size when it’s not relevant can contribute to antifat attitudes and behavior and create harm. For example, unnecessarily discussing weight in the context of health may imply that high ...
Science Daily

Climate changed the size of our bodies and, to some extent, our brains

The average body size of humans has fluctuated significantly over the last million years and is strongly linked to temperature. Colder, harsher climates drove the evolution of larger body sizes, while ...
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Study of paper wasps shows that body size is larger in habitats nearer the equator

An analysis of 429 specimens belonging to 39 species representative of the diversity of Polistes in the Americas confirmed the inverse of Bergmann’s rule by pointing to larger body size for species ...
UPI

Human body size fluctuated in response to climate change over last million years

July 8 (UPI) --New analysis of hundreds of human fossils, some 1 million years old, suggests the average human body size has fluctuated as the planet's climate periodically warmed and cooled.
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Body size in mammalian paleobiology estimation and biological implications edited by John Damuth, Bruce J. MacFadden

1. Introduction J. Damuth and B. MacFadden Part I. The Biological Significance of Mammalian Body Size: 2. The physiological significance of body size B.K. McNab 3. The behavioral/ecological ...