Sentences with phrase «body size relative»

The Splash's body size relative to the Suzuki Swift (second generation, ZC # system)- also a compact vehicle - is smaller; even more so than the Takashi Tamotsu, also 30 mm the wheelbase is shorter 2,360 mm.

This relationship held even when the researchers controlled for other factors that could be used to explain it — brain size, a child's body size relative to an adult's, etc..

Keystones selectively prey on dominant prey, have large body size relative to prey size, and are highly mobile, with a large foraging range.

Not exact matches

This set of traits is now known as the so - called Kinderschema which describes the head - to - body ratio, the position of the eyes (below the midline of the head), and size of the eyes relative to the size of the head and more.

Relative in size to a papaya fruit, your flourishing, thriving baby is infringing upon the available space within your body.

The fact that children are smaller in size means that their skin presents a large surface area relative to their body weight for absorption of environmental substances.»

Those dinosaurs close to the ancestry of birds shared some of these traits, but they had two functional reproductive tracts, and their eggs were smaller relative to their body size and more elongated than those of modern birds.

The carnivorous animal, which was roughly the size of a small lion, walked on all fours, its forelimbs and hindlimbs are similar in proportion, and the limbs themselves are pretty short relative to the length of the body.

With the longest legs relative to body size of any wild cat, the serval is also one of the fastest, able to run at speeds up to fifty miles per hour.

«The gradual evolution of smaller and smaller body size would have allowed the bird predecessors to explore novel niches and body plans off limits to their larger relatives,» he says.

That meant they could carry larger brains relative to their body size.

Numerous other creatures, especially some whales and birds, also show a pattern of increasing brain size relative to their bodies over the past tens of millions of years.

In gibbons, a part of the inner ear called the semicircular canals, which coordinates balance, is large relative to body size.

But the trap - jaw ant can swim ten times as fast as Olympic champion Michael Phelps, relative to its body size.

The findings, published in the journal PNAS, suggest that if the bodily environment that a mother provides for her baby is unfavourable, for example through small body size or metabolic dysfunction, the placenta will change the flow of nutrients to the fetus relative to her own state.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

They differ most obviously from their spider and scorpion relatives in three ways: their massive two - segmented jaws, which can be up to one - third of their body length and are armed with teeth and spine - like and horn - like processes of various sizes; the flagellum, found on the jaws of adult males in most species and thought to play a major role in reproduction; and the malleoli, racquet - shaped sensory organs on the underside of the first segment of the last pair of legs.

Instead, the best predictor was the relative size of the back legs compared to the rest of their body.

Now, researchers say that social complexity also underlies the braininess of parrots, which have big brains relative to their body size.

They then looked at the relative size of different parts of each animal's body, their overall sizes, and their habitats.

Our brains are bigger, relative to body size, than other animals», but it's not just size that matters.

With their unusually large brains relative to their body size and advanced cognition, parrots live in a complex social environment — not merely in a large population of cooperating creatures, such as bees or ants, but in a dynamic setting of alliances and competitors.

They found that the bigger a primate's brain relative to the species's overall body size, the smaller the guts tend to be.

In another study, paleoanthropologist William Jungers of Stony Brook University in New York studied the foot of the hobbit and found it, true to its namesake, strikingly large relative to the size of the body, with very short big toes.

And if you compare the relative size of brains to bodies, our brains are even more impressive.

Absolute size is important, but it is usually regarded as less informative than relative size — the size of the brain as a fraction of the size of the body.

Birds and mammals have brains that are up to 10 times larger, relative to body size, than those of reptiles and other animals.

The rest of the monitored space debris ranges in size from the size of a softball, to massive rocket bodies, all orbiting uncontrolled at relative speeds averaging about 22,300 mph in low - Earth orbit, where the majority of the objects reside.

By contrast, blue whales, the largest baleen whales, can lunge only a few times during a dive because they gulp down much larger mouthfuls relative to their body size, resulting in immense drag.

He and colleagues focused on the South American toco toucan (Ramphastos toco), which has the largest bill of any bird relative to its body size.

In addition, the women's facet joints, which connect the vertebrae and prevent twisting of the spine, were larger relative to their body size and positioned differently to redirect the weight and enhance resistance.

In particular, having larger skulls relative to their body size allowed birds to evolve relatively large and more elaborate brains.

But, relative to body size, primates have much larger brains than any other animals, and we humans, not surprisingly, have the biggest brains of all — about six times larger than you would expect for a mammal of our size.

As hominid body size increased, it took on near - modern proportions of around 5 or 6 feet tall, and the legs grew longer relative to the arms, indicating more efficient walking and perhaps running.

Previous research suggests our ability to cooperate and exhibit empathy — both thought to be critical to human success — relied in part on the large brains of our hominin ancestors, relative to body size; and that selection against aggression within early human populations allowed us to thrive.

However, in the past 15,000 years, the average size of the human brain relative to our body has shrunk by 3 or 4 per cent.

Artificial selection readily changes the ratio of body size to wing size in butterflies, indicating that the relative sizes of body parts are shaped by selection, not developmental constraints.

NASA graphic displaying the relative size of Kepler - 13Ab relative to various solar system bodies

Similarly, the bodies» relative sizes are inaccurate.

«We have shown that species with larger brains relative to their body size experience lower mortality than species with smaller brains, supporting the general importance of the cognitive buffer hypothesis in the evolution of large brains.»

NASA graphic displaying the relative size of Kepler - 13Ab relative to various solar system bodies (Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)-RRB-

They found that birds with larger brains relative to their body size survived better in nature than birds with small brains.

Dolphins are considered some of the smartest animals on Earth, with the ratio of their brain size relative to their average body size being second only to humans.

Evolution of polyphenism: the role of density and relative body size on morph determination.

«Additionally,» he continued, «primates and cetaceans both tend to have large brains relative to the size of their bodies.»

Woodlizards are big, reaching a length of 30 to 40 centimeters, and have huge heads relative to their body size.

For example, weight losses tend to be relative to body size.

One of the body's adaptations to aerobic exercise is actually size REDUCTION of certain muscle fibers, which makes them proportionately more efficient (by increasing relative blood flow, among other things).

Your metabolic rate is relative to your size and body composition as well as your activity levels.

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