Maximal sustained energy budgets in humans and animals

Kimberly A. Hammond and Jared Diamond
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Kimberly A. Hammond: University of California
Jared Diamond: University of California

Nature, 1997, vol. 386, issue 6624, 457-462

Abstract: Abstract Why are sustained energy budgets of humans and other vertebrates limited to not more than about seven times resting metabolic rate? The answer to this question has potential applications to growth rates, foraging ecology, biogeography, plant metabolism, burn patients and sports medicine.

Date: 1997
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