allometry
Sign in to saveAllometry (Ancient Greek "other", "measurement") is the study of the relationship of body size to shape, anatomy, physiology and behaviour, first outlined by Otto Snell in 1892, by D'Arcy Thompson in 1917 in On Growth and Form and by Julian Huxley in 1932.
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- Overview
- Isometric scaling and geometric similarity
- Allometric scaling
- Determining if a system is scaling with allometry
- Examples
- Physiological scaling
- Metabolic rate and body mass
- Allometric muscle characteristics
- Allometry of legged locomotion
- Methods of study
- Principles of legged locomotion identified through allometry
- Drug dose scaling
- Allometric scaling in fluid locomotion
- Allometric engineering
- In characteristics of a city
- Examples
- Determinants of size in different species
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Allometry (Ancient Greek "other", "measurement") is the study of the relationship of body size to shape, anatomy, physiology and behaviour, first outlined by Otto Snell in 1892, by D'Arcy Thompson in 1917 in On Growth and Form and by Julian Huxley in 1932.
==Overview== Allometry is a well-known study, particularly in statistical shape analysis for its theoretical developments, as well as in biology for practical applications to the differential growth rates of the parts of a living organism's body. One application is in the study of various insect species (e.g., Hercules beetles), where a small change in overall body size can lead to an enormous and disproportionate increase in the dimensions of appendages such as legs, antennae, or horns. The relationship between the two measured quantities is often expressed as a power law equation (allometric equation) which expresses a remarkable scale symmetry: thumb|alt=Power function, logarithm|Allometric equation: way of expressions y = k x^a,