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OntogenyAllometryPhylogeneticsBiologyEvolutionary biologyZoologyEcologyGeneticsGene
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Biological EvolutionGrowth
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- 1966
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- review
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 587-638
- Citations
- 2293
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- Closed
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Stephen Jay Gould
(1966).
ALLOMETRY AND SIZE IN ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY.
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
, 41
(4)
, 587-638.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185x.1966.tb01624.x
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- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1469-185x.1966.tb01624.x
- PMID
- 5342162