Body size is a key feature of organisms and varies continuously because of the effects of
natural selection on the size‐dependency of resource acquisition and mortality rates. This …

Body condition is assumed to influence an animal's health and fitness. Various non‐
destructive methods based on body mass and a measure of body length have been used as …

Power‐law relationships are among the most well‐studied functional relationships in
biology. Recently the common practice of fitting power laws using linear regression (LR) on …

Body size directly influences an animal's place in the natural world, including its energy
requirements, home range size, relative brain size, locomotion, diet, life history, and …

Unique among animals, humans eat a diet rich in cooked and nonthermally processed food.
The ancestors of modern humans who invented food processing (including cooking) gained …

Recent histological studies suggest relatively rapid growth in dinosaurs. However, the timing
of reproductive maturity (RM) in dinosaurs is poorly known because unambiguous indicators …

The magnitude of many biological traits relates strongly and regularly to body size.
Consequently, a major goal of comparative biology is to understand and apply these 'size …

Conclusion Both the examples cited here followed standard practice, yet the outcomes of the
analyses were inaccurate and misleading. The only sure way to avoid such undesirable …

The field of biological allometry was energized by the publication in 1997 of a theoretical
model purporting to explain 3/4-power scaling of metabolic rate with body mass in …

Several attempts have been made in recent years to formulate a general explanation for
what appear to be recurring patterns of allometric variation in morphology, physiology, and …