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Allen's rule
Associated persons:
Joel Asaph Allen
Karl Georg Lucas Christian Bergmann
Description:
In zoology, the principle that animals adopted to cold have smaller and shorter limbs and protruding body parts.
See also Bergmann's rule, under Carl Bergmann, 19th-century German biologist.
Bibliography:
- J. A. Allen:
The influence of Physical conditions in the genesis of species.
Radical Review, 1877, 1: 108-140.
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