“…b and c and b).Polyphasic loglinear allometry has been criticized on several occasions over the years (e.g., Ford and Horn, ’59; Gould, ), with one of the first critiques being coauthored by none other than Huxley himself (Reeve and Huxley, , p. 144). Despite the many expressions of concern, however, the procedure continues in wide use by contemporary biologists (e.g., Clemente et al., ; Glazier, ; Hampton, ; Lemaître et al., ; Pescinelli et al., ; Snelling et al., ). The current investigation confirms that reservations of the critics were well founded and that studies relying on polyphasic loglinear allometry are unlikely to provide accurate representations for patterns of variation in bivariate displays of untransformed variables. - The best model fitted to both datasets by nonlinear regression is a power function with an unchanging exponent (Tables and ).
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