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	<updated>2026-04-25T09:53:14Z</updated>
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		<title>Prab: 1 revision imported</title>
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		<updated>2025-03-08T18:04:48Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;1 revision imported&lt;/p&gt;
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		<author><name>Prab</name></author>
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		<title>en&gt;Bughouse68: Added Thayer&#039;s Law (also known as countershading) to the list</title>
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		<updated>2024-08-28T05:44:40Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Added Thayer&amp;#039;s Law (also known as countershading) to the list&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 05:44, 28 August 2024&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [[Ivan Schmalhausen|Schmalhausen&amp;#039;s law]] {{wrap|{{small|A population at limit of tolerance in one aspect is vulnerable to small differences in any other aspect}}}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [[Ivan Schmalhausen|Schmalhausen&amp;#039;s law]] {{wrap|{{small|A population at limit of tolerance in one aspect is vulnerable to small differences in any other aspect}}}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>en&gt;Bughouse68</name></author>
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		<title>Prab: CSV import</title>
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		<updated>2024-04-30T04:47:09Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;CSV import&lt;/p&gt;
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| name      = Biological rules&lt;br /&gt;
| title     = [[Biological rules]]&lt;br /&gt;
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| image     = [[File:Bergmann&amp;#039;s Rule.svg|160px|link=Bergmann&amp;#039;s rule|alt=Bergmann&amp;#039;s rule illustrated with a map and graph]]&lt;br /&gt;
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| group1    = Rules&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[Allen&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Shorter appendages in colder climates}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Bateson&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Extra limbs mirror their neighbours}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Bergmann&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Larger bodies in colder climates}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Cope&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Bodies get larger over time}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Deep-sea gigantism]] {{wrap|{{small|Larger bodies in deep-sea animals}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Dollo&amp;#039;s law of irreversibility|Dollo&amp;#039;s law]] {{wrap|{{small|Loss of complex traits is irreversible}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Eichler&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Parasites co-vary with their hosts}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Emery&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Insect social parasites are often in same genus as their hosts}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Fahrenholz&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Host and parasite phylogenies become congruent}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Foster&amp;#039;s rule]] ([[Insular gigantism]], [[Insular dwarfism]]) {{wrap|{{small|Small species get larger, large species smaller, after colonizing islands}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Gause&amp;#039;s law]] {{wrap|{{small|Complete competitors cannot coexist}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Gloger&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Lighter coloration in colder, drier climates}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Haldane&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Hybrid sexes that are absent, rare, or sterile, are heterogamic}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Harrison&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Parasites co-vary in size with their hosts}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Kin selection|Hamilton&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Genes increase in frequency when relatedness of recipient to actor times benefit to recipient exceeds reproductive cost to actor}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Kleiber&amp;#039;s law]] {{wrap|{{small|An animals metabolic rate decreases with its size}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Willi Hennig|Hennig&amp;#039;s progression rule]] {{wrap|{{small|In cladistics, the most primitive species are found in earliest, central, part of group&amp;#039;s area}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Jarman–Bell principle]] {{wrap|{{small|The correlation between the size of an animal and its diet quality; larger animals can consume lower quality diet}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Jordan&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Inverse relationship between water temperature and no. of fin rays, vertebrae}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Lack&amp;#039;s principle]]  {{wrap|{{small|Birds lay only as many eggs as they can provide food for}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Rapoport&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Latitudinal range increases with latitude}}}} &lt;br /&gt;
* [[Rensch&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Sexual size dimorphism increases with size when males are larger, decreases with size when females are larger}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Rosa&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|Groups evolve from character variation in primitive species to a fixed character state in advanced ones}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Ivan Schmalhausen|Schmalhausen&amp;#039;s law]] {{wrap|{{small|A population at limit of tolerance in one aspect is vulnerable to small differences in any other aspect}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Thorson&amp;#039;s rule]] {{wrap|{{small|No. of eggs of benthic marine invertebrates decreases with latitude}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Leigh Van Valen|Van Valen&amp;#039;s law]] {{wrap|{{small|Probability of extinction of a group is constant over time}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[von Baer&amp;#039;s laws (embryology)|von Baer&amp;#039;s laws]] {{wrap|{{small|Embryos start from a common form and develop into increasingly specialised forms}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Samuel Wendell Williston|Williston&amp;#039;s law]] {{wrap|{{small|Parts in an organism become reduced in number and specialized in function}}}}&lt;br /&gt;
| group2    = Related&lt;br /&gt;
| list2     =&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Countergradient variation]] {{small|Where genetics opposes environment as a factor}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Gigantothermy]] {{small|Large ectothermic animals more easily maintain constant body temperature}} &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Biology navigational boxes]]&lt;br /&gt;
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