---
type: Fractal Concept
title: Allometry
description: Study of how parts of an organism scale with overall body size, often following power-law relationships such as Kleiber's 3/4-power metabolic law.
resource: https://tyson-swetnam.github.io/fractal-notebooks/okf/concepts/biological/allometry/
tags:
- biological
- scaling
aliases:
- allometric
- allometric scaling
sources:
- id: glossary
  resource: https://tyson-swetnam.github.io/fractal-notebooks/foundations/glossary/
  title: Fractal Notebooks glossary (Chapter 4)
- id: seed
  resource: https://github.com/tyson-swetnam/fractal-notebooks/blob/main/fractal_rag/src/fractal_rag/concepts/seed.yaml
  title: fractal_rag concept seed (seed.yaml)
generated:
  by: process:fractal-rag-okf-export
  at: "2026-10-24T00:00:00Z"
status: stable
---

# Definition

Study of how parts of an organism scale with overall body size, often following power-law relationships such as Kleiber's 3/4-power metabolic law.

# Aliases

`allometric`, `allometric scaling`

# Related concepts

* [Power Law](../foundations/power-law.md)

# Citations

[1] [Fractal Notebooks glossary (Chapter 4)](https://tyson-swetnam.github.io/fractal-notebooks/foundations/glossary/) — `docs/foundations/glossary.md`

[2] [fractal_rag concept seed (seed.yaml)](https://github.com/tyson-swetnam/fractal-notebooks/blob/main/fractal_rag/src/fractal_rag/concepts/seed.yaml) — `fractal_rag/src/fractal_rag/concepts/seed.yaml`