Sentence examples for body size changes from inspiring English sources

A recently published experimental study used a body illusion to confirm Poincaré's notion that changing body size changes the perceived size of objects ("Barbie-doll illusion"; van der Hoort, Guterstam, & Ehrsson, 2011).

First noted in 1964, this pattern of body size changes in insular mammals became known as the "Island Rule".

Nervous systems, muscles, and motor organs (biomechanics) generate movement cooperatively and should therefore change coordinately as body size changes.

Using this robust phylogeny for the family and considering ancient fossil amphiumids, we present hypotheses for the evolution of extreme body size changes and its implications for ecological and genetic divergence in this family.

Processes governing body size changes are therefore important in the diversification of this species.

They found body size changes in only six cases with half showing an increase and half showing a decrease.

They used femur length of over 400 species of fossil creatures spanning 100 million years to estimate body mass and tracked how body size changed in the two groups from the time of the Permian mass extinction to the heyday of the biggest Jurassic dinosaurs about 150 million years ago.

Here we have added to that by showing a body size change is possible.

Because snakes are gape-limited predators, differences in the allometry of relative head size may provide evidence consistent with predictions based on shifts in prey (diet alteration) as a selective factor for body size change [31], [32].

First it was designed as a measuring device for a body size change measurement during evaluation phases, and second as a haptic device for belly prodding during the experiment.

Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to examine the association between body size change and BP.