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Allometry

Allometry (Ancient Greekállos "other", métron "measurement") is the study of the relationship of body size to shape, anatomy, physiology and behaviour, first outlined by in 1892, by D'Arcy Thompson in 1917 in On Growth and Form and by Julian Huxley in 1932.

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