The evolution of large size: how does Cope's Rule work?

HONE, & Benton. (2005). The evolution of large size: how does Cope's Rule work?: how does Cope's Rule work?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

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Journal article

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Primary research

Year

2005

DOI

10.1016/j.tree.2004.10.012

DOI registrant

Elsevier

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2004.10.012

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Domain-specific

• Cope's Rule
  • is the macroevolutionary generalization that within animal lineages tracked across geological time, body size tends to increase, producing an upward drift in mean body mass sustained over millions of years that is statistically robust in several major groups including Cenozoic mammals, sauropodomorph and theropod dinosaurs, and many Paleozoic and Mesozoic marine invertebrates

    This sourceReview of the evidence for Cope's rule across clades, assessing which groups show statistically supported lineage-level size increase and by what mechanism. Surveys dinosaur and other clades and reports that Cope-like size trends appear in some groups and not others, which is the 'some clades and not others' proposition.

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