Table 1 Neonatal and adult brain weight and total body weight for the great apes and human beings. Adult body weight is the average of male and female weight. Data from Harvey et al. [25]
From: Bergmann’s rule is a “just-so” story of human body size
Neonatal mass (grams) | Adult mass (grams) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Species | Brain | Body | Br/Bo ratio | Brain | Body | Br/Bo ratio |
Pongo (orangutan) | 170.3 | 1,728.0 | 0.10 | 413.3 | 53,000.0 | 0.008 |
Pan (chimpanzee) | 128.0 | 1,756.0 | 0.07 | 410.3 | 36,350.0 | 0.011 |
Gorilla | 227.0 | 2,110.0 | 0.11 | 505.9 | 126,500.0 | 0.004 |
Homo sapiens | 384.0 | 3,300.0 | 0.12 | 1,250.0 | 44,000.0 | 0.284 |