Answers are grounded in this paper and cite their sources.
Embryonic and post‐embryonic growth times are scaled to body size in a fashion quantitatively similar to physiological time scales. Previous studies have either perceived the allometry of physiological time only as a crude approximation or overlooked it entirely. Allometric analysis offers considerable promise for understanding comparative growth dynamics.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
William A. Calder (1982) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 10 related papers. Consider them for comparative context: