 | Percy Goldthwait Stiles - 1912 - 288 Seiten
...animal is twice as long as another it will weigh eight times as much and have four times the surface. Since the body loses heat in proportion to the extension...this is the determining factor for the metabolism. It is surprising nevertheless that animals as unlike as man, mouse, and fowl should evolve heat in... | |
 | 1916 - 648 Seiten
...is necessary for the maintenance of a constant temperature" (IS). In a popular textbook on nutrition we also find : Since the body loses heat in proportion...this is the determining factor for the metabolism (16). Between 1885 and 1915 practically no direct comparison of measured body surface and metabolism... | |
 | Percy Goldthwait Stiles - 1918 - 326 Seiten
...animal is twice as long as another it will weigh eight times as much and have four times the surface. Since the body loses heat in proportion to the extension of its surface it is not strange that this is a determining factor for the metabolism. It is surprising nevertheless that animals as unlike as man,... | |
 | Lawrence Augustus Averill - 1926 - 712 Seiten
...metabolism in the young, requires an explanatory statement. It is a well-known biologic principle that the body loses heat in proportion to the extension of its surface, and that in proportion to weight the small body has a much greater surface than the larger one. This... | |
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Since the body loses heat in proportion to the extension of its surface it is not strange that this is the determining factor for the metabolism. 