Evidence for adolescent length growth spurts in bonobos and other primates highlights the importance of scaling laws Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen
Adolescent growth spurts (GSs) in body length seem to be absent in non-human primates and are considered a distinct human trait. However, this distinction between present and absent length-GSs may reflect a mathematical artefact that makes it arbitrary. We first outline how scaling issues and inappropriate comparisons between length (linear) and weight (volume) growth rates result in misleading interpretations like the absence of length-GSs in ...