Cope's rule
Meaning
Proper Noun
- A rule stating that population lineages tend to increase in body size over evolutionary time.
Origin
- Named after American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope. The rule was never actually stated by Cope, though he did tend to hypothesize about the occurrence of linear evolutionary trends.
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