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I HAVE come upon an interesting example of the way in which the application of the principle of heterogonic growth may simplify an involved problem. A certain measurement y of an organ or part of an organism is said to show heterogonic growth with respect to some standard measurement x of the organism when the equation y = bxk holds good over a definite period, b and k being constants typical for each particular case1. Heterogonic growth clearly involves a regularly continuous change of proportions.
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NEEDHAM, A. A Useful Application of the Principle of Heterogonic Growth. Nature 136, 433–434 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136433b0
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