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Dwarfs are intelligent creatures, with stronger bones and muscles but smaller than humans. They live mostly under ground (caves, mines, etc.) and reproduce sexually.
How long the gestation period would be for a female dwarf? Dwarfs were hunted by creatures that fed mainly on them and had to adapt to overcome that (animals at the bottom of food chain usually have a small gestation period)
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Dwarfs are intelligent creatures, with stronger bones and muscles but smaller than humans. They live mostly under ground (caves, mines, etc.) and reproduce sexually.
How long the gestation period would be for a female dwarf? Dwarfs were hunted by creatures that fed mainly on them and had to adapt to overcome that (animals at the bottom of food chain usually have a small gestation period)
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Dwarfs are intelligent creatures, with stronger bones and muscles but smaller than humans. They live mostly under ground (caves, mines, etc.) and reproduce sexually.
How long the gestation period would be for a female dwarf? Dwarfs were hunted by creatures that fed mainly on them and had to adapt to overcome that (animals at the bottom of food chain usually have a small gestation period)
biology reproduction species
edited 17 hours ago
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Dwarfs are intelligent creatures, with stronger bones and muscles but smaller than humans. They live mostly under ground (caves, mines, etc.) and reproduce sexually.
How long the gestation period would be for a female dwarf? Dwarfs were hunted by creatures that fed mainly on them and had to adapt to overcome that (animals at the bottom of food chain usually have a small gestation period)
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If you are assuming that your dwarves are still primates, you can make use of the following chart, relating the gestation time (in days) with the weight (of a fully grown female in kilograms) for primates (source)
Which can be fitted with the relationship
$log(Gest) = 2.075 + 0.189 (log(Wt)) $
Estimate the weight of your dwarves, and get the fitting gestation length.
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Nice, simple model. Must have some great error bars though, so the OP can still tweak up or down and be pretty realistic.
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weight is not a great predictor is great apes. Gestation time is a very narrow range despite differences in mass. This calculator puts human gestation at 259 days well short of the actual 280 days, especially given the range seen in great apes.It also over estimates gorilla gestation by a similar margin.
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Gestation time in great apes varies from 240 days to 280 days on average. Not a huge range given hte size difference between the largest and smallest members, bonobos and gorilla. So anywhere in that range is fine. The longest gestation time is not gorilla but humans (the range is 240-260 days without humans) so you may want to favor the high end of the range, something about large brains favors longer gestation.
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If you are assuming that your dwarves are still primates, you can make use of the following chart, relating the gestation time (in days) with the weight (of a fully grown female in kilograms) for primates (source)
Which can be fitted with the relationship
$log(Gest) = 2.075 + 0.189 (log(Wt)) $
Estimate the weight of your dwarves, and get the fitting gestation length.
edited 10 hours ago
Cornstalks
1031
answered 17 hours ago
L.Dutch♦L.Dutch
85.8k29201420
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Nice, simple model. Must have some great error bars though, so the OP can still tweak up or down and be pretty realistic.
$endgroup$
– Joe Bloggs
16 hours ago
2
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weight is not a great predictor is great apes. Gestation time is a very narrow range despite differences in mass. This calculator puts human gestation at 259 days well short of the actual 280 days, especially given the range seen in great apes.It also over estimates gorilla gestation by a similar margin.
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– John
9 hours ago
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$begingroup$
If you are assuming that your dwarves are still primates, you can make use of the following chart, relating the gestation time (in days) with the weight (of a fully grown female in kilograms) for primates (source)
Which can be fitted with the relationship
$log(Gest) = 2.075 + 0.189 (log(Wt)) $
Estimate the weight of your dwarves, and get the fitting gestation length.
edited 10 hours ago
Cornstalks
1031
answered 17 hours ago
L.Dutch♦L.Dutch
85.8k29201420
$endgroup$
$begingroup$
Nice, simple model. Must have some great error bars though, so the OP can still tweak up or down and be pretty realistic.
$endgroup$
– Joe Bloggs
16 hours ago
2
$begingroup$
weight is not a great predictor is great apes. Gestation time is a very narrow range despite differences in mass. This calculator puts human gestation at 259 days well short of the actual 280 days, especially given the range seen in great apes.It also over estimates gorilla gestation by a similar margin.
$endgroup$
– John
9 hours ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
If you are assuming that your dwarves are still primates, you can make use of the following chart, relating the gestation time (in days) with the weight (of a fully grown female in kilograms) for primates (source)
Which can be fitted with the relationship
$log(Gest) = 2.075 + 0.189 (log(Wt)) $
Estimate the weight of your dwarves, and get the fitting gestation length.
edited 10 hours ago
Cornstalks
1031
answered 17 hours ago
L.Dutch♦L.Dutch
85.8k29201420
$endgroup$
If you are assuming that your dwarves are still primates, you can make use of the following chart, relating the gestation time (in days) with the weight (of a fully grown female in kilograms) for primates (source)
Which can be fitted with the relationship
$log(Gest) = 2.075 + 0.189 (log(Wt)) $
Estimate the weight of your dwarves, and get the fitting gestation length.
edited 10 hours ago
Cornstalks
1031
answered 17 hours ago
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Nice, simple model. Must have some great error bars though, so the OP can still tweak up or down and be pretty realistic.
$endgroup$
– Joe Bloggs
16 hours ago
2
$begingroup$
weight is not a great predictor is great apes. Gestation time is a very narrow range despite differences in mass. This calculator puts human gestation at 259 days well short of the actual 280 days, especially given the range seen in great apes.It also over estimates gorilla gestation by a similar margin.
$endgroup$
– John
9 hours ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
Nice, simple model. Must have some great error bars though, so the OP can still tweak up or down and be pretty realistic.
$endgroup$
– Joe Bloggs
16 hours ago
2
$begingroup$
weight is not a great predictor is great apes. Gestation time is a very narrow range despite differences in mass. This calculator puts human gestation at 259 days well short of the actual 280 days, especially given the range seen in great apes.It also over estimates gorilla gestation by a similar margin.
$endgroup$
– John
9 hours ago
$begingroup$
Nice, simple model. Must have some great error bars though, so the OP can still tweak up or down and be pretty realistic.
$endgroup$
– Joe Bloggs
16 hours ago
$begingroup$
Nice, simple model. Must have some great error bars though, so the OP can still tweak up or down and be pretty realistic.
$endgroup$
– Joe Bloggs
16 hours ago
2
2
$begingroup$
weight is not a great predictor is great apes. Gestation time is a very narrow range despite differences in mass. This calculator puts human gestation at 259 days well short of the actual 280 days, especially given the range seen in great apes.It also over estimates gorilla gestation by a similar margin.
$endgroup$
– John
9 hours ago
$begingroup$
weight is not a great predictor is great apes. Gestation time is a very narrow range despite differences in mass. This calculator puts human gestation at 259 days well short of the actual 280 days, especially given the range seen in great apes.It also over estimates gorilla gestation by a similar margin.
$endgroup$
– John
9 hours ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
Gestation time in great apes varies from 240 days to 280 days on average. Not a huge range given hte size difference between the largest and smallest members, bonobos and gorilla. So anywhere in that range is fine. The longest gestation time is not gorilla but humans (the range is 240-260 days without humans) so you may want to favor the high end of the range, something about large brains favors longer gestation.
answered 9 hours ago
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$begingroup$
Gestation time in great apes varies from 240 days to 280 days on average. Not a huge range given hte size difference between the largest and smallest members, bonobos and gorilla. So anywhere in that range is fine. The longest gestation time is not gorilla but humans (the range is 240-260 days without humans) so you may want to favor the high end of the range, something about large brains favors longer gestation.
answered 9 hours ago
JohnJohn
34.5k1046121
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$begingroup$
Gestation time in great apes varies from 240 days to 280 days on average. Not a huge range given hte size difference between the largest and smallest members, bonobos and gorilla. So anywhere in that range is fine. The longest gestation time is not gorilla but humans (the range is 240-260 days without humans) so you may want to favor the high end of the range, something about large brains favors longer gestation.
answered 9 hours ago
JohnJohn
34.5k1046121
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Gestation time in great apes varies from 240 days to 280 days on average. Not a huge range given hte size difference between the largest and smallest members, bonobos and gorilla. So anywhere in that range is fine. The longest gestation time is not gorilla but humans (the range is 240-260 days without humans) so you may want to favor the high end of the range, something about large brains favors longer gestation.
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