4450 words Introduction Cope’s rule is an evolutionary hypothesis which suggests that, over geological time, species have a tendency to increase in body size. (Although it has been proposed for Cope’s rule to be named Deperet’s rule, since Cope didn’t explicitly state the hypothesis while Deperet did, Bokma et al, 2015.) Named after Edward Drinker … Continue reading Cope’s (Deperet’s) Rule, Evolutionary Passiveness, and Alternative Explanations