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Extant terrestrial mammals span an enormous size range, from tiny pygmy shrews weighing in at less than 5 g to massive African elephants tipping the scales at over 2500 kg (Eisenberg, 1981). Despite such marked differences in adult body mass, Alexander et al. (1979) report that the lengths and diameters of limb bones in a shrew-to-elephant size series scale surprisingly close to geometric similarity; i.e., linear dimensions are almost proportional to (mass)173. Although adult members of the order Primates cannot match the overall range of body sizes in mammals, the size distribution of living primate species is still quite impressive, ranging from dwarf galagos and mouse lemurs (—60–70 g) at one end of the spectrum to male gorillas (>200 kg in some individuals) at the other. Given the unexpected results of the Alexander et al. (1979) study, it is reasonable to wonder if the linear dimensions of the long bones of adult primates also conform to the expectations of geometric similarity. A few minutes of casual observation at the zoo or natural history museum would probably suffice to allow one to reject this null hypothesis for primate limb proportions. Galagos and tarsiers simply do not resemble gibbons or gorillas very much with regard to their respective bodily proportions. Locomotor differences between these extremes seem equally obvious and appear to be correlated with differences in limb proportions.
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Jungers, W.L. (1985). Body Size and Scaling of Limb Proportions in Primates. In: Jungers, W.L. (eds) Size and Scaling in Primate Biology. Advances in Primatology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3647-9_16
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