1978
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330490115
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Scaling of organ weights in Macaca arctoides

Abstract: The allometric scaling of nine internal organs was examined for Macaca arctoides. Significant organ weight-body weight regressions were obtained for heart, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, thyroid, liver, and testes. The spleen and adrenal glands exhibited strong variability and were only loosely correlated to body weight. Using allometry as a criterion of subtraction, observed sex differences in mean organ weights were seen to be primarily the result of differences in average body weight. It is postulated that analy… Show more

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“…Following the publication of Huxley's Problems in Relative Growth (1932), the power function, y = bx', has enjoyed almost exclusive use in allometric studies (Gould, 1966;Larson, 1978). Its adequacy to investigate human allometries has been demonstrated empirically by Wood (1976).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Following the publication of Huxley's Problems in Relative Growth (1932), the power function, y = bx', has enjoyed almost exclusive use in allometric studies (Gould, 1966;Larson, 1978). Its adequacy to investigate human allometries has been demonstrated empirically by Wood (1976).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Other primate organ systems have not fared quite as well as the brain. The work of Stahl(1965), Stahl and Gummerson (19671, and Snow and Vice (1965) on visceral allometry has been supplemented more recently by that of Larson (1978Larson ( , 1982Larson ( , 1984a, Gest and Siege1 (19831, and Chivers and Hladik (1980;also cf. Martin et al, 1984).…”
Section: Yearbook Of Physical Anthropologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At the same time, however, such changes in size also regulate and partially determine biological form and function (Cock, 1966;Gould, 1966;Alexander, 1971;McMahon, 1973;Schmidt-Nielsen, 1975). The study of these size-related phenomena is the domain of allometry (Huxley and Teissier, 1936), especially when relative growth departs from geometric similarity (Gould, 1975a;Larson, 1978). Allometric studies of primates are abundant, but the great majority consider only the static or interspecific scaling of body parts among adult animals: brain (e.g., Stephan andBy contrast, examples of ontogenetic scaling are quite rare, and the few existing studies of postnatal growth allometry in primates are dominated by analyses of cross-sectional samples of young to mature skeletons or cadavers Schultz, 1941, 1947;Malinow et al, 1966;Thorington, 1972).…”
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