In comparison to the life span this relationship is "inverted": the larger the organism the lower its metabolic rate.
与寿命相比，这种关系是“反向的”：生物体越大，其代谢率越低。
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If you examine the metabolic rates of the two sexes you establish that the higher male metabolic rate roughly accounts for the lower male life span.
如果你研究两性的代谢率，你就会发现，男性较高的代谢率大致解释了为何他们寿命较短。
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This is sort of a leakage from a potential future time span to space expansion towards a lower energy state, as the storage of events in time needs additional energy, just like battery charging.