… in an old insect order: odonates (“dragonflies and damselflies”). Fossil evidence for “Cope's
Rule” in … We suggest that the lack of Cope's rule in odonates results from conflicting selection …

… respiration, large flying insects employ ventilation to … of Cope's Rule, nearly every major
order arose at small size relative to the range of sizes later developed. The only exceptional order…

Change in body size within an evolutionary lineage over time has been under investigation
since the synthesis of Cope’s rule, which suggested that there is a tendency for mammals to …

… ecological and evolutionary drivers of global latitudinal size gradients in an old insect order.
… Our study reveals that a simple version of Bergmann's Rule based on temperature alone is …

… who gather insect body size data not from specimens but from previous … rules, I do believe
that morphometrics studies should still be performed, particularly in understudied insect orders …

… 22 , and insects 25 . These disparate conclusions have fueled a debate about the validity
of Cope’s rule 26 . As Cope’s rule does not hold in all taxa 27 , it has been suggested that …

… trends, including gigantism, Cope's rule and the rates at which … former instar, more generally
known as Dyar's constant or … (mm) of species in different insect orders and close relatives, …

… Stanley (1973) reviewed the causative basis for "Cope's rule," … He argues that Cope's rule
cannot be explained solely … This ecological explanation forms the basis for Cope's rule. The …

… As such, these diverse insects range across 2.5 orders of … , because of the need to extract
longer appendages from the old cuticle… of large body size may counter Cope’s law, the trend for …

… Cope’s rule, respectively. We review their body-size evolution patterns based on their known
phylogenies and test previous hypotheses of giantism, both autapomorphic and phyletic. …