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...

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

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

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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...

contrast, the genus also contains many species of dwarf elephants that evolved via insular dwarfism on islands in the Mediterranean, some only 1 metre...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

supposedly diagnostic traits of H. floresiensis were instead a result of insular dwarfism of an H. erectus population. A 2009 cladistic analysis concluded H...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

indonesicus and S. celebensis were dwarf elephants substantially smaller than mainland elephant species as a result of insular dwarfism, with S. celebensis estimated...

described a man as 1.60 metres (5 ft 3 in) tall, possibly because of insular dwarfism (the so-called "Island Effect"), nutrition, or simply genetic heritage...

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

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

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...

species from which it is descended. Its small size is a result of insular dwarfism, a form of allopatric speciation. Because the island fox is geographically...

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...

Retrieved April 14, 2022. Vanek, John P.; Burke, Russell L. (March 2020). "Insular dwarfism in female Eastern Hog-nosed Snakes ( Heterodon platirhinos ; Dipsadidae)...