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Life Span As we saw in Exercise 60 of Section 9.2, researchers have estimated the maximum life span (in years) for various species of mammals according to the formula
Where E is the average brain mass and P is the average body mass (both in g). Source: The Quarterly Review of Biology. Consider humans, with
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