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Zoology

pattern in which sexual size dimorphism increases with body size when males are the larger sex and decreases when females are larger.

In zoology, Rensch's rule refers to pattern in which sexual size dimorphism increases with body size when males are the larger sex and decreases when females are larger. This meaning comes from Abouheif (1997) in The American Naturalist.[1]

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References

Abouheif, E., & Fairbairn, D. J. (1997). A Comparative Analysis of Allometry for Sexual Size Dimorphism: Assessing Rensch's Rule. The American Naturalist, 149(3), 540-562. https://doi.org/10.1086/286004

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