Smaller body size tends to mean a shorter lifespan and a shorter generation time.
Not exact matches
The study also showed that treeshrews on
smaller islands
tend to have
smaller body size.
They found that the bigger a primate's brain relative to the species's overall
body size, the
smaller the guts
tend to be.
GC - biased gene conversion correlates with recombination rate (86), and new GC alleles reach fixation more easily in species with larger population
sizes, which
tend to also have
smaller body sizes (87).