Developmental causes of allometry: new models and implications for phenotypic plasticity and evolution.

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Shapes change during development because tissues, organs, and various anatomical features differ in onset, rate, and duration of growth. Allometry is the study of the consequences of differences in the growth of body parts on morphology, although the field of allometry has been surprisingly little concerned with understanding the causes of differential growth. The power-law equation y = ax(b), commonly used to...

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