User:Benjitheijneb/Books/Evolutionary Rules

A resource for creating plausible fictional species

 * 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