teedata: Total energy expenditure across primate species

In ryanraaum/qmdata: Datasets for Quantitative Methods for Biological Anthropology Course

Description

Data from "Primate energy expenditure and life history". Used for a phylogenetic regression exercise.

Usage

teedata

Format

A data frame with 84 rows and 5 variables:

species

string: taxonomic species

order

string: taxonomic order

group

factor: primate or nonprimate

mass

number: mass in kg

TEE

number: total energy expenditure in kcalories/day

Details

The data are modified from what was released by the authors:

• called the admixed Eulemur sp. data Eulemur fulvus

• dropped the captive Lemur catta data

• dropped the "captive" westerners Homo sapiens data

• dropped the second Peromyscus maniculatus data point (which was not used in primate - nonprimate comparisons in Pontzer et al.)

• added a "group" varible to sort out primates from non-primates

Source

Herman Pontzer, David A. Raichlen, Adam D. Gordon, Kara K. Schroepfer-Walker, Brian Hare, Matthew C. O’Neill, Kathleen M. Muldoon, Holly M. Dunsworth, Brian M. Wood, Karin Isler, Judith Burkart, Mitchell Irwin, Robert W. Shumaker, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Stephen R. Ross. 2014. Primate energy expenditure and life history. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111:1433-1437 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1316940111

See Also

teetree

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