The evolutionary ecology of body size with special reference to allometry and survivorship

Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 213-234

  Rollo, C David ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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