Opinion
Darwin and Huxley revisited: the origin of allometry
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Journal of Biology 2009, 8:14 doi:10.1186/jbiol119
Published: 23 February 2009Abstract
The relative sizes of parts of an organism frequently depend on the absolute size of the individual, a relationship that is generally described by power laws. I show here that these power laws are a consequence of the way evolution operates.
