单词 | gloger |
释义 | Glogern. Zoology. Gloger's rule (occasionally law) [translating German Glogersche Regel (B. Rensch Prinzip geogr. Rassenkreise u. Problem der Artbildung (1929) 160)] , the empirical principle that within a given species (originally of bird) the races which inhabit warmer or more humid regions are more heavily pigmented than those of cooler or drier regions. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > principle determining pigmentation Gloger's rule (occasionally law)1933 1933 Amer. Naturalist 67 114 The rule of the depigmentation in arid regions, and of the accumulation of pigment in humid regions, is well known under the name of Allen's rule (or Gloger's rule). 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 379/2 Gloger's law. 1983 E. C. Minkoff Evolutionary Biol. xiii. 235/1 Gloger's rule relates body color to both humidity and temperature. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1933 |
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