Insular dwarfism, a form of phyletic dwarfism, is the process and condition of large animals evolving or having a reduced body size when their population's...

evolve larger bodies, and large species tend to evolve smaller bodies (insular dwarfism). This is itself one aspect of the more general phenomenon of island...

height) in comparison with their immediate ancestors. Dwarf elephants are an example of insular dwarfism, the phenomenon whereby large terrestrial vertebrates...

of Javanese Homo erectus that reduced its body size as a result of insular dwarfism, or whether it represents an otherwise undetected migration of small...

genetic engineering, selective breeding, or insular dwarfism, or some combination of the above. Dwarfing can produce more practical breeds that can fit...

islands, making insular dwarfism the most common form of phyletic dwarfism. Examples of this are the Channel Island fox, extinct dwarf elephants of Crete...

contrast, the genus also contains many species of dwarf elephants that evolved via insular dwarfism on islands in the Mediterranean, some like Palaeoloxodon...

that evolved insular dwarfism. In 2000, David Martill and Darren Naish pointed out that the portrayal of the animal as an island-dwelling dwarf species was...

band Wrocław's dwarfs, small sculptures in Wrocław, Poland Phyletic dwarfism, an average decrease in size of animals Insular dwarfism, a evolutionary...

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process of insular dwarfism which is common on islands; the ancestors of pygmy hippopotami were also small and thus there was never a dwarfing process....

over the generations, producing a localized form of dwarfism. Nopcsa's theory of insular dwarfism—also known as the island rule—is today widely accepted...

Philippines and Japan. Once present on the islands, due to the process of insular dwarfism, as a result of decreased land area and the reduction of predation...

ago) of northern Germany, and has been identified as an example of insular dwarfism resulting from the isolation of a sauropod population on an island...

island creatures evolved larger body size (insular gigantism) while others became smaller (insular dwarfism). Foster proposed the simple explanation that...

hippopotamuses are smaller insular relatives of continental hippopotamuses). These are examples of insular gigantism and insular dwarfism respectively. This observed...

body size a result of insular dwarfism. It represented one of only two large terrestrial mammals on Cyprus alongside the Cyprus dwarf elephant. The species...

smallest mammoth that ever existed. Its size reduction was the result of insular dwarfism, where the body size of large mammals on islands reduces as the result...

rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis Pleistocene dwarf elephants developed as a result of insular dwarfism on the island of Sardinia: Mammuthus lamarmorae...

The insular dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus insularis) is a species of gecko endemic to Juan de Nova Island (Mozambique). Lygodactylus insularis at the Reptarium...

of the founders of paleobiology, and first described the theory of insular dwarfism. He was also a specialist on Albanian studies and completed the first...

is substantially smaller in size than H. amphibius as a result of insular dwarfism, having an estimated mass of approximately 900 kg, which is smaller...

Late Pleistocene. A number of dwarf mammoth species, with small body sizes, evolved on islands as a result of insular dwarfism. These include Mammuthus lamarmorai...

considered to be a junior synonym of P. creutzburgi. It had undergone insular dwarfism, being approximately 40% of the size of its mainland ancestor, and...

5 m (8 ft 10 in × 4 ft 11 in) in size. Cephalopod size Dwarfing Island gigantism Insular dwarfism Largest organisms Megafauna Timofeev, S. F. (2001). "Bergmann's...

Several species of proboscideans lived on islands and experienced insular dwarfism. This occurred primarily during the Pleistocene, when some elephant...

Alexandra A.E.; Lyras, George A.; Volmer, Rebekka (October 2018). "Insular dwarfism in canids on Java (Indonesia) and its implication for the environment...

a fully-grown adult. Its small stature was probably the result of insular dwarfism occurring in a population of sauropods isolated on an island of the...

floresiensis, concluding that "multiple independent instances of hominin insular dwarfism occurred on Flores". However, as no genetic material from H. floresiensis...

falconeri. This island-bound elephant is considered to be an example of insular dwarfism, with adult individuals around the size of modern elephant calves....