… Here, we aim to perform a rigorous test for Cope's rule in Dinosauria and to partly discriminate
among the possible processes giving rise to it, using a combination of phylogenetic and …

… noted 70 years’ ago that Cope's Rule by no means applied to … the question: Does Cope's
Rule applies to colonial organisms… We then examine if the macroevolutionary pattern observed …

… trend, and many populations trended toward smaller body sizes. Although selection estimates
can be interpreted to support Cope's rule, … macroevolutionary analyses of Cope's rule. Size …

… Cope’s rule, the tendency for species within a lineage to evolve towards larger body size,
has … into a macroevolutionary trend toward increased size and thereby explain Cope’s rule. …

… is produced; when it applies across groups of related species, the result is a trend across
an entire clade. An example of a trend commonly described in these terms is Cope’s rule, the …

… Causes of macroevolutionary trends in body size, such as Cope's Rule, the tendency of
body size to increase over time, remain poorly understood. We used size measurements from …

… macroevolutionary processes contribute to the trend? Before we consider body size trends
… procedural points about how trends can most insightfully be analysed (see also Alroy 2000). …

… sizes, tests of Cope's rule, and miniaturization on the line leading to birds. We use non-uniform
macroevolutionary models based on Ornstein–Uhlenbeck and trend processes to unify …

… Cope's rule of phyletic size increase is questioned as a general pattern of body size evolution.
Most studies of Cope's rule have examined trends … is consistent with Cope's rule. To do this…

… At the macroevolutionary level, one of the first and most important … Cope's rule and
miniaturization, using extant Oryzomyini rodents as a study model. We evaluated body size trends …