A Reassessment of Bergmann's Rule in Modern Humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Foster, Frederick ^a   Collard, Mark ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BERGMANN RULE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; LATITUDE; MODERN TIMES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; THERMOREGULATION;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84883176789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072269     Document Type: Article

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