Sentence examples for body size differences between from inspiring English sources

In the present study, we test whether body size differences between contestants affect outcome differently in male and female contests.

We measure the overall interpolation error imposed by our interpolation method in terms of mean body size differences between the synthesized and captured body models.

The team calculates that this is big enough to make the island dwarfism hypothesis considerably more plausible once the body size differences between the Hobbit and H. erectus which was nearly twice as tall are adjusted for.

But Zelenitsky and her colleagues found that the olfactory ratios of the earliest birds hovered well above 20%—at least as high as those of their dinosaur ancestors when adjusted for body size differences between the two groups of animals.

Measures of length are standard proxies of body size in snakes but do not adequately reflect the magnitude of body size differences between the smallest and largest speckled rattlesnakes.

In each of these groups, weaponry is either limited to, or larger in males than females, and after correcting for body size differences between combatants, the male with the relatively larger weapon(s) usually wins in aggressive combat with smaller males (see refs. above).

Therefore, despite the subadult condition of the holotype we postulate that the body size difference between Leonerasaurus and basal sauropods was at least as large as those noted between other basal sauropodomorphs and sauropods ([68], [69]; see below).

Assortative preference scores were calculated as the absolute value of the body size difference between the focal and large stimulus individual divided by the difference in body size between the focal and small stimulus animal.

In the alpine newt, this concerned both sexes in one population and females only in another, while in the third population no body size difference between sexes was found (Table 2, Figure 1).

Here, we explore the consequences of a simple, and previously ignored, fact that in a grasping posture the position of the male's grasping appendages relative to the female's body is often a function of body size difference between the sexes.

However, several characters (characters 254, 340) diagnosing the 'non-microcormorant' clade relate to the robust development of tubercles associated with muscle insertion, and thus could potentially be due to body-size differences between the two groups rather than phylogenetic history.