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Description: This file is a redrawn and colored version of a sketchy, colorless diagram from the Journal of Heredity (1921) Volume 12, pg 421. It depicts human body proportions changing as the subject matures. The diagram shows that the head becomes proportionately smaller and the limbs become proportionately longer as the subject matures. The link below goes to the original diagram. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neoteny_body_proportion_heterochrony_human.png
Title: Human development neoteny body and head proportions pedomorphy maturation aging growth
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