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noun
The principle of biology that states that populations isolated onto islands may undergo evolution towards dwarfism or gigantism to better conform to available resources
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: evolutionary theory
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History
From being an empirical rule applied to evolution on islands.
