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Theory of recapitulation - Ernst Haeckel

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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#XL - T Zoology

Bergmann’s rule: Populations in colder climates tend to have greater body mass than those in warmer climates.

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Haldane’s rule: Hybrid sterility or hybrid inviability is often limited to the heterogametic sex. 

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#XL - T Zoology

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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#XL - T Zoology

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.