Sentence examples for body size reduction from inspiring English sources
Body size reduction in mammals is accompanied by only a moderate reduction in brain size, so that the brains of dwarfs are proportionately larger than those of giants.
Dwarf elephants (genus Stegodon) were also present, and it was suggested that a similar process of body size reduction had also led to local dwarfing of late-surviving Homo erectus.
"Based on the evidence from Palau," Dr. Berger's team concluded, "we hypothesize that reduction in the size of the face and chin, large dental size and other features noted here may in some cases be correlates of extreme body size reduction in H. sapiens".
Fig. 2 A figure first printed in 1903 depicting the "classic" trends in horse evolution: increase in body size, reduction in number of toes, and increase in height of grinding teeth.
On the branch leading to modern birds, we detect a strong signal of regulatory innovation near insulin-like growth factor binding protein (IGFBP) 2 and IGFBP5, which have roles in body size reduction, and may represent a genomic signature for the miniaturization of dinosaurian body size preceding the origin of flight.
Berger et al. [8] hypothesized body size reduction among the Rock Island samples.
Body-size reduction in vertebrates following the end-Devonian mass extinction.
This slow growth rate, together with the forewing-size reduction (and therefore the body-size reduction) discussed in Point 2, suggested that the larvae took longer to become an adult even though the final adult was smaller.
Along with Brianna McHorse, Abba was able to quantitatively show that extinct horses of North America did not partition habitat based on trait state (e.g. body size, digit reduction, tooth crown height).
Compared with their control littermates, Ms5Yah mice showed decreased body size, weight reduction and platelet deficits.
Furthermore, this taxonomic arrangement recognizes the unique morphological patterns (i.e., a trend toward smaller adult body size and reduction and loss of vertebrae and/or digits in the forelimbs)and specialized life history traits in Syncope.
