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IN a series of investigations dealing with the comparative studies of relative growth in various groups of arthropods and man1–7 I have confirmed a tendency that the growth ratios of rapidly growing parts of the body tend to be more similar than those of slowly growing parts when two or more closely related forms (such as geographically isolated populations, subspecies, parthenogenetic and bisexual strains of the same arthropod species, interspecific-hybrid and very closely related species in arthropods, Negro and Caucasian children) are compared. This indicates that in incipient stages of structural divergence during evolution the slowly growing parts would tend to be more affected than rapidly growing parts.
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MATSUDA, R. Evolutionary Tendency of Relative Growth in Arthropods and Man. Nature 208, 1228 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2081228a0
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