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On 2002-05-23 17:26, Geo3gh wrote:
I don't even think that this works for land animals. The equation quoted is from Ted Holden's web page (I can't find the link anymore). What Holden did was work out how large you could make a champion weightlifter so that his weight was equal to his maximum demonstrated lift. So the equation really shows how big a human can get. Holden ignores the differences in physiology, especially in skeletal structure, that would allow animals like elephants and sauropods to be better adapted for large size than H. sapiens.
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Humans are also quite weak by animal standards. It's common knowledge among zookeepers that a human being can tighten a bolt as tightly as possible using a wrench, but a chimpanzee, gorilla, or orangutan can undo the bolt with its bare hands.