- March 24, 2009
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Bone-ing Up on Allometry
by Andrew Farke in The Open Source Paleontologist
Allometric scaling - roughly defined, when different parts of an organism grow at different rates - is an important factor in biology. In part, allometry describes how babies have relatively larger heads than adults (we exhibit negative allometry in this trait, because our skulls don't grow as quickly as the rest of the body) or how some crabs have gigantic claws (an example of positive allometry, in which the claw grows much faster than the rest of the body). Allometry (and its counterpart isom........ Read more »
Doube, M., Conroy, A., Christiansen, P., Hutchinson, J., & Shefelbine, S. (2009) Three-Dimensional Geometric Analysis of Felid Limb Bone Allometry. PLoS ONE, 4(3). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004742
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