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An application of the relative growth function y = bxk to Osborn's data on skull measurements of the titanotheres shows that the function applies to phylogenetic as well as to ontogenetic growth-partition. The results may be summarized in the following tentative generalizations: (1) Ascending species within the genus bring about no change in b and k. (2) Genera are distinguished from one another by differences in b and in k. (3) b is a decreasing exponential function of k. By appealing to knowledge derived from experiments on extant forms, it is pointed out that these generalizations can be explained in ontogenetic terms.
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A. H. Hersh (1934) studied this question.
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