Bergmann's rule
noun
Berg·mann's rule
ˈbərg-mənz,
ˈberg-
: a statement of the principle that within a polytypic wide-ranging species of warm-blooded animals the average body size of members of each geographic race varies inversely with the mean environmental temperature
Word History
Etymology
after Karl Bergmann †1865 German biologist
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