If this ratio R is equal to 1, then the population is randomly dispersed.

If R is significantly greater than 1, the population is evenly dispersed

If R is significantly less than 1, the population is clumped

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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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Hitchhiking: Change in the frequency of an allele due to linkage with a selected allele at another locus.

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Dollo’s law: A biological generalization positing that complex characters, once lost in evolution, are extremely unlikely to reappear and thus the loss of complex characters is virtually always irreversible.

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Van Valen law- he found a surprising result: rather straight curves, implying that the probability of extinction is roughly constant.

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Ockham’s principle- Principle of parsimony

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The Forces of Evolution: