Similarity of Mammalian Body Size across the Taxonomic Hierarchy and across Space and Time

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2004-04-19

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1086/382898PMID 15122486
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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