Maximal sustained energy budgets in humans and animals
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Sustained energy budgets of humans and animals are never more than seven times higher than resting metabolic rates. Several factors could be responsible for such a sustained metabolic ceiling. Limits may be imposed by factors such as food availability, peripheral limitations, central machinery limits and symmorphosis. Such questions of evolutionary design need to be studied further, with potential applications in areas such as foraging ecology, sports medicine and plant metabolism.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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Geography and skin colour
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Jablonski and Chaplin have brought order to the confused field of quantitative measurements of skin color and sunlight which most scientists shy away because its so interests racists, and the motives of scientist studying it become suspect. These scientists have convincingly identified the strongest correlate of skin color, which would enable anthropologists to explore other correlates and exceptions.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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