Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
He proposed that the embryonic development of an individual organism (its ontogeny) followed the same path as the evolutionary history of its species (its phylogeny).
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Bergmann’s rule: populations in colder climates tend to have greater body mass than those in warmer climates. This pattern is so common that it has a name
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Hamilton’s rule: It states that an allele that causes an altruistic behavior will spread if the following condition is met (rb>C)
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Cope’s rule: A proposed generalization that individual body size in animals tends to increase during evolution.
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