Cope's rule as psychological artefact
Article Abstract:
E.D. Cope formulated a 'phyletic size increase law' in 1871 that stated that the body size of organisms in any given evolutionary lineage tends to increase. In testing whether Cope's rule may be a psychological practice of singling out observations that one prefers to single out, D. Jablonski studied all 191 bivalve and gastropod lineages of molluscs. The results of Jablonski's study revealed that lineages showing net increase in size are just as common as lineages showing net decrease of both smallest and largest species.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Worldwide drugs: the expanding trade
Article Abstract:
Levels of international trade in drugs and other controlled substances has increased as a result of the end of the Cold War. The US and other members of the intenational community should acknowledge the existence of this problem and take concrete measures to halt the interanational illicit drug trade.
Publication Name: Current
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0011-3131
Year: 1993
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
The God particle and the grid
Article Abstract:
As the web is being re-invented for the internet, the atom-smashing, supercomputing 5-gigabits-per-second grid economy will take over. The LHC grid manufacturers have tested two grids in April 2004 with a massive flow of stimulated data.
Publication Name: Wired
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1059-1028
Year: 2004
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: The neo-Nazi menace in Germany. Intel inside. Selective memory: how the law affects what we remember and forget about the past - the case of East Germany
- Abstracts: The normalization of the abnormal. Damage limitation
- Abstracts: The aesthetics of illness: narrative, horror and the sublime. Ruiz Mateus, Contd
- Abstracts: Dr. Robert C. Weaver, 1907-1997, first HUD Secretary. 101 uses for sex - or why sex is so important