Miniaturization, or the evolution of extremely small adult body size, is a widespread
phenomenon in animals. It has important consequences for both organismal biology and …

To function over a lifetime of use, materials and structures must be designed to have
sufficient factors of safety to avoid failure. Vertebrates are generally built from materials …

Dental Functional Morphology offers an alternative to the received wisdom that teeth merely
crush, cut, shear or grind food and shows how teeth adapt to diet. Providing an analysis of …

Mammalian skeletons experience peak locomotor stresses (force per area) that are 25 to
50% of their failure strength, indicating a safety factor of between two and four. The …

The mid‐shaft circumferences of the humerus and femur are closely related to body weight
in living terrestrial vertebrates. Because these elements are frequently preserved in subfossil …

We measured the lengths and diameters of four long bones from 118 terrestrial carnivoran
species using museum specimens. Though intrafamilial regressions scaled linearly, nearly …

In addition to being one of the United States' largest pork producers, North Carolina is home
to a developing niche market of pasture-raised pork. In Real Pigs Brad Weiss traces the …

Only the medium in which an animal lives has a more important influence on its biol-ogy
than its size. In the course of Earth's history, organisms have successfully evolved over an …

Long‐bone scaling has been analyzed in a large number of terrestrial mammals for which
body masses were known. Earlier proposals that geometric or elastic similarity are suitable …

Scaling refers to the structural and functional consequences of differences in size (or scale)
among organisms of more or less similar design. Investigations into such size‐related …