'''异速生长''' (Allometry )是关于身体大小与形状<ref>{{cite book|first=Christopher G. |last=Small |title=The Statistical Theory of Shape |year=1996 |publisher=Springer |isbn=0-387-94729-9 |page=4}}</ref>、解剖学、生理学以及人类行为<ref>{{cite journal |author=Damuth J |title=Scaling of growth: plants and animals are not so different |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |volume=98 |issue=5 |pages=2113–4 |date=February 2001 |pmid=11226197 |pmc=33381 |doi=10.1073/pnas.051011198 |url=http://www.pnas.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=11226197|bibcode = 2001PNAS...98.2113D }}</ref>间关系的研究,于1892年被 Otto Snell<ref>{{cite journal |author=Otto Snell |title=Die Abhängigkeit des Hirngewichts von dem Körpergewicht und den geistigen Fähigkeiten |journal=Arch. Psychiatr. |volume=23 |issue= 2|pages=436–446 |year=1892 |doi=10.1007/BF01843462}}</ref> ,1917年被 D'Arcy Thompson<ref>{{cite book| first=D'Arcy W |last=Thompson |title=On Growth and Form |edition=Canto |year=1992 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-43776-9 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7_F4OUJmLFcC | '''异速生长''' (Allometry )是关于身体大小与形状<ref>{{cite book|first=Christopher G. |last=Small |title=The Statistical Theory of Shape |year=1996 |publisher=Springer |isbn=0-387-94729-9 |page=4}}</ref>、解剖学、生理学以及人类行为<ref>{{cite journal |author=Damuth J |title=Scaling of growth: plants and animals are not so different |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |volume=98 |issue=5 |pages=2113–4 |date=February 2001 |pmid=11226197 |pmc=33381 |doi=10.1073/pnas.051011198 |url=http://www.pnas.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=11226197|bibcode = 2001PNAS...98.2113D }}</ref>间关系的研究,于1892年被 Otto Snell<ref>{{cite journal |author=Otto Snell |title=Die Abhängigkeit des Hirngewichts von dem Körpergewicht und den geistigen Fähigkeiten |journal=Arch. Psychiatr. |volume=23 |issue= 2|pages=436–446 |year=1892 |doi=10.1007/BF01843462}}</ref> ,1917年被 D'Arcy Thompson<ref>{{cite book| first=D'Arcy W |last=Thompson |title=On Growth and Form |edition=Canto |year=1992 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-43776-9 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7_F4OUJmLFcC |