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Re: Precision



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Datum: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:34:27 -0200
Von: Roberto Takata <rmtakata@gmail.com>

> > so even if a femur is say 10% longer than another it does not
> > establish that the longer femur came from the heavier individual,
> > or even if it is heavier, that it is by 10% cubed.
>
> 10% or 110% cubed?

Heavier _by_ 10 % cubed = 110 % cubed _as_ heavy.

> Anyway, the allomectric studies probably would not
> scaled it up by a full factor 3. (Most volume/area allometric scale
> is about .75 instead of 0.66 from pure geometric scale.)

Interesting, I hadn't noticed.
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