Impact of height and weight on life span.
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Bull World Health Organ
- Place
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego.
- Volume / pages
- 1992;70(2):259-67
- Retrieved
- May 28, 2013
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Shorter People Live Longer
The study was conducted to evaluate one aspect of the entropy theory of aging, which hypothesizes that aging is the result of increasing disorder within the body, and which predicts that increasing mass lowers life span. The first evaluation of the impact of human size on longevity or life span in 1978, which was…