Organ Weights in Primates and Other Mammals
Abstract
In mammals the weight of the heart, kidney, lungs, and other organs can be related to total body weight through power laws (allometry). Weights of primate organs are analyzed by this technique. Allometric coefficients and size-independent organ-weight or body-form ratios may be used to compare primates, including humans, and other mammals.
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Across mammalian species, blood volume is linearly proportional to body mass, although the mass of the pituitary is proportional only to the log of body mass.
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- Authors
- Stahl, W. R.
- Affiliations
- Department of Biomathematics and Automatic Data Processing, Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Beaverton, Oregon
- Corresponding author
- Stahl, Walter R.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1965-11-19
- Volume
- 150
- Issue
- 3699
- Pages
- 1039-1042
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2020153124
- Cited by
- 188
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 4.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Keywords
- organ weight, allometry, power law, primate anatomy, allometric coefficient, comparative anatomy, mammals, human
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Organ Size, Physiology, Comparative
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