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CHAPTER III THE RATE OF GROWTH

of size or age finds its parallel in comparative anatomy, in the general law that the larger the animal the less is the relative weight of the brain.

Weight of entire animal gms.Weight of brain gms.Ratio
Marmoset33512ôñ51ã€₤:ã€₤26
Spider monkey1845126〈〇1ã€₤:ã€₤15
Felis minuta123423ôñ61ã€₤:ã€₤56
F. domestica330031〈〇1ã€₤:ã€₤107
Leopard27,700164〈〇1ã€₤:ã€₤168
Lion119,500219〈〇1ã€₤:ã€₤546
Elephant3,048,0005430〈〇1ã€₤:ã€₤560
Whale (Globiocephalus)1,000,0002511〈〇1ã€₤:ã€₤400

For much information on this subject, see Dubois, 〜AbhûÊngigkeit des Hirngewichtes von der KûÑrpergrûÑsse bei den SûÊugethieren,〝 Arch. f. Anthropol. XXV, 1897. Dubois has attempted, but I think with very doubtful success, to equate the weight of the brain with that of the animal. We may do this, in a very simple way, by representing the weight of the body as a power of that of the brain; thus, in the above table of the weights of brain and body in four species of cat, if we call W the weight of the body (in grammes), and w the weight of the brain, then if in all four cases we express the ratio by W =ã€₤wÿ£¢nã€₤, we find that n is almost constant, and differs little from 2ôñ24 in all four species: the values

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