Gastrointestinal Allometry in Primates and Other Mammals

There has been a considerable upsurge of interest recently in the concept of interspecific allometry (Gould, 1966), which relates to the scaling of individual characteristics to match body size in different species. Two particularly important developments have been taking place in theoretical aspects of allometry (e.g., see other contributions to this volume) and in the extension of allometric analysis to new fields of enquiry. One example of the application of allometric principles to an entirely new area of research is provided by the work conducted by Chivers and Hladik (1980) on the morphology of the gastrointestinal tract in primates and other mammals. Further development of this particular approach forms the subject of this chapter.

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