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allometry

Allometry is a nonlinear relationship of different measurements of organisms across a range of sizes. Many measurements follow a power relation, in which larger values of one measurement are related to a logarithm or exponent of another measurement.

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Brain-body allometry revisited across mammals

Reviewing a 2021 paper in Science Advances by J. B. Smaers and coworkers, which looks at brain-body allometry across mammals.

Skull of a tree shrew in the eye orbit of a human skull