ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] Why does a mouse burn six times more energy per unit body mass per minute than a human? The intuitive answer is to keep warm. In 1883, Rubner found that the metabolic rate depended on the body's surface-to-volume ratio, or M2/3, where M is the body mass, thus supporting the notion of ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/417131a
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