{"type":"standard","title":"Foster's rule","displaytitle":"Foster's rule","namespace":{"id":0,"text":""},"wikibase_item":"Q2296350","titles":{"canonical":"Foster's_rule","normalized":"Foster's rule","display":"Foster's rule"},"pageid":1124336,"thumbnail":{"source":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Garganornis_ballmanni_%28reconstruction_by_Stefano_Maugeri%29.jpg/330px-Garganornis_ballmanni_%28reconstruction_by_Stefano_Maugeri%29.jpg","width":320,"height":411},"originalimage":{"source":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Garganornis_ballmanni_%28reconstruction_by_Stefano_Maugeri%29.jpg","width":997,"height":1280},"lang":"en","dir":"ltr","revision":"1282881055","tid":"6b4a4d81-0c5d-11f0-ac01-ba7628b2fa44","timestamp":"2025-03-29T05:19:42Z","description":"Ecogeographical rule in evolutionary biology","description_source":"local","content_urls":{"desktop":{"page":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster's_rule","revisions":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster's_rule?action=history","edit":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster's_rule?action=edit","talk":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Foster's_rule"},"mobile":{"page":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster's_rule","revisions":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/Foster's_rule","edit":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster's_rule?action=edit","talk":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Foster's_rule"}},"extract":"Foster's rule, also known as the island rule or the island effect, is an ecogeographical rule in evolutionary biology stating that members of a species get smaller or bigger depending on the resources available in the environment. For example, it is known that pygmy mammoths evolved from normal mammoths on small islands. Similar evolutionary paths have been observed in elephants, hippopotamuses, boas, sloths, deer and humans. It is part of the more general phenomenon of island syndrome which describes the differences in morphology, ecology, physiology and behaviour of insular species compared to their continental counterparts.","extract_html":"
Foster's rule, also known as the island rule or the island effect, is an ecogeographical rule in evolutionary biology stating that members of a species get smaller or bigger depending on the resources available in the environment. For example, it is known that pygmy mammoths evolved from normal mammoths on small islands. Similar evolutionary paths have been observed in elephants, hippopotamuses, boas, sloths, deer and humans. It is part of the more general phenomenon of island syndrome which describes the differences in morphology, ecology, physiology and behaviour of insular species compared to their continental counterparts.
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