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Evolutionary Rules
[edit]A resource for creating plausible fictional species
[edit]- Biological Rules
- Climate
- Allen's Rule - Temperature-Driven Limb Length Variation
- Bergmann's Rule - Temperature-Driven Size Variation
- Countergradient Variation
- Gigantothermy
- Gloger's Rule - Humidity-Based Pigmentation
- Jordan's Rule - Temperature-Based Meristic Characteristic Variation
- Thorson's Rule - Latitudinal Egg Variation
- Time
- Cope's Rule - Evolutionary Body Size Shift
- Dollo's Law - Irreversibility to Previous States
- Rosa's Rule - Law of Progressive Reduction of Variability
- Van Valen's Law - Constant Probability of Extinction
- von Baer's Laws - Laws of Embryonic Development
- Williston's Law - Reduction-Specialisation of Serially Homologous Parts
- Schultz's Rule - Longevity-Based Occurrence of Tooth Eruption
- Resources
- Bateman's Principle - Reproductive Variance
- Jarman-Bell Principle - Size-Diet Negative Correlation
- Kleiber's Law - Metabolic Rate by Mass
- Lack's Principle - Food-to-Offspring Ratio
- Liebig's Law of the Minimum - Resource Limiting Factor
- Schmalhausen's Law - Extreme-Condition Vulnerability
- Isolation
- Deep-Sea Gigantism
- Foster's Rule - Island Effect
- Foster's Rule - Island Effect - Insular Dwarfism
- Foster's Rule - Island Effect - Island Gigantism
- Hennig's Progression Rule - Territory-Central Clade Primitivism
- Rapoport's Rule - Latitudinal Range Variation
- Thorson's Rule - Latitudinal Invertebrate Reproduction
- Competition
- Assembly Rules - Assemblage Composition Patterning
- Gause's Law - Competitive Exclusion Principle
- Island Tameness
- Red Queen Hypothesis - Competition-Driven Evolution
- Rensch's Rule - Sexually Dimorphic Size Variation
- Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity
- Symbiosis
- Eichler's Rule - Parasite-Host Covariation
- Emery's Rule - Interrelation of Social Parasites
- Fahrenholz's Rule - Host-Parasite Cospeciation
- Haldane's Rule - Species Hybrid Fertility Principle
- Harrison's Rule - Parasite-Host Size Covariation
- Hamilton's Rule - Kin Selection