Abstract

ABSTRACT If it could be shown that the determination of organ size in the animal body is not reached by an independent process, but that the magnitude of any one structure is determined by that of others, such evidence, if of a strictly quantitative nature, would tend to affirm the existence of a physical mechanism regulating the relative growth of body components. It is the object of this paper to present such evidence, and to describe a model from physical chemistry which lends a reasonable interpretation to the diversification observed in the ontogenetic and phylogenetic history of organ size.

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