Ontogenetic Allometry of the Skull and Dentition of the Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatto)

摘要: The study of cranial variation has played an important role in primate systematics. Many different research strategies have been employed to investigate functional anatomy the mammalian skull; but fully understand adaptive significance structure, it is necessary consider allometry, relationship between size and shape skull body size. Over 20 years ago, le Gros Clark (1963, pp. 156–157) noted that It utmost importance implications allometry evolutionary development as well growth individual.. As result allometric growth, general proportions (and also other parts skeleton) may be very two quite closely related types. Such differences clearly no great taxonomic value, since they only one major factor, i.e.