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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol J Linn Soc Lond. 2015 Mar;114(3):527–537. doi: 10.1111/bij.12440

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Examples of allometric (log10-log10) plots, showing how different structures scale relative to the length of lower leg (our estimate of body size) in vervet monkeys. All x-axes span two log units; y-axes span two (A–C) or five log units (D–E). (A) Chest girth shows weak positive allometry (b > 1). (B) The length of the upper leg shows near perfect isometry (b = 1). (C) The head shows negative allometry (b < 1). Allometric slopes (b) given ± 1 SE. Data from the St. Kitts and Nevis site for males of all adult ages for illustrative purposes.