Chapter 17: Gigantism, Dwarfism, and Cope's Rule: “Nothing in Evolution Makes Sense without a Phylogeny”

By G. Gould, Bruce J. MacFadden. 2004

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Subfields: Genetics, Paleontology

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Citations in the corpus

• The road to everywhere : Evolution, complexity and progress in natural and artificial systems (2008, unknown): “First, it relies on Cope’s rule, which is itself the subject of recurrent controversy within evolutionary research [89, 5, 67].”
• Dinosaurs and the island rule: The dwarfed dinosaurs from Haţeg Island (2010, background): “Gould and MacFadden (2004) argued that the terms dwarf, dwarfing, dwarfism, and gigantism generally refer to medical abnormalities within species, and yet the terms have been widely extended to indicate size changes between races or species.”
• Was southern Central America an archipelago or a peninsula in the middle Miocene? A test using land-mammal body size (2005, background): “…within an island community of terrestrial mammals, species with large body sizes will evolve smaller body sizes relative to their mainland counterparts (dwarfism or nanism); whereas species with small body sizes will evolve larger body sizes (gigantism) (Foster, 1964; Gould and MacFadden, 2004).”
• Body size evolution in insular vertebrates: generality of the island rule (2005, background): “…size within groups of similar bau plans and ecological strategies (following Cope’s Rule; see Cope, 1887; Gould, 1997; Jablonski, 1997; Alroy, 1998; Gould & MacFadden, 2004), alternating with periods of more dramatic evolution and diversification in body size when lineages diverged to invade or…”
• The island rule and a research agenda for studying ecogeographical patterns (2006, background): “…on islands and among species of different body size (therefore the graded trend should occur within, as well as among, mammalian orders; see explanations by Heaney, 1978; Lomolino, 1985, 2005; Adler & Levins, 1994; Adler, 1996; Marquet & Taper, 1998; McNab, 2001, 2002; Gould & MacFadden, 2004).”