new photo

Ron Gatrelle gatrelle at tils-ttr.org
Sun Dec 7 14:13:39 EST 2003


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Walsh" <jbwalsh at u.arizona.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 12:04 PM
Subject: RE: new photo

> I'd like to offer the following note, which is not met to support/detract
> *appalachiensis* vs. *glaucus*.  The field of morphometrics is a branch
> of quantitative biology dealing with the shape of organisms and how it
can
> change.  One of the key findings in the notion of allometry, wherein the
> shape of organisms change as they group.  Hence, a simple change in size
> can result in a rather dramatic change in shape --- the greatly enlarged
> heads of solder ants are an example, as the head grows faster than the
body,
> and hence by increasing the body, one greatly increases the head,
> resulting in a very different looking organism.  I'll email Ron a short
(3 page)
> pdf file on this, which we can perhaps post on TILS.
>
> Cheers
>
> Bruce


Bruce sent this file and I have uploaded the allometry PDF in the "files"
section of our leps-talk web site.

RG



 
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