Anole Bites Help Us Rediscover Rensch’s Rule

What Rensch (really) found there Rensch’s rule is one of the great macroevolutionary patterns studied by evolutionary biologists. It describes the positive association between male-biased sexual size dimorphism (SSD) and species size, a relationship that has been observed in many different taxa (although it is certainly not a generalizable pattern). Since 1950, year in which […]

Anole Bites Help Us Rediscover Rensch’s Rule
What Rensch (really) found there Rensch’s rule is one of the great macroevolutionary patterns studied by evolutionary biologists. It describes the positive association between male-biased sexual size dimorphism (SSD) and species size, a relationship that has been observed in many different taxa (although it is certainly not a generalizable pattern). Since 1950, year in which […]