Richard Collins: Sizing up life on an island
Richard Collins: Sizing up life on an island The Island Rule states that species living on islands tend to become either bigger or smaller, depending on the resources available The remains of a Giant Irish deer at the Natural History Museum in Dublin. Picture: Haydn West Wed, 05 May, 2021 - 22:30 In Through the Looking-Glass, Alice participates in ‘the Red Queen’s race’. To stay in the same place on the chessboard, she has to keep running constantly. The Red Queen Hypothesis says that, like Alice, a species can’t rest on its evolutionary laurels; its survival depends on keeping abre...