Talk:Biological rules

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This article was compiled and adapted today from materials in the articles on Allen's rule, Bergmann's rule, Foster's rule, Gloger's rule, Jordan's rule, Rapoport's rule, and Thorson's rule. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:35, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

While containing truly every biological rule is always a work in progress, this page has a large bias in its listing towards the more obscure biological rules rather than the common ones. I'm going to make an effort to continue adding more common or foundational principles of biology to this list, as well as more obscure ones. Bughouse68 (talk) 07:45, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just one thread for one topic, please. "Making an effort to continue" is *extremely* close to an announcement of edit-warring, given that a) you've been reverted, and b) this discussion is in progress, and nobody else has had a chance to contribute yet. On your assertion that the current rules are "more obscure", no, they are simply the rules whose effects can be seen in evolutionary ecology, such as geographically. If you were to widen the article's scope to include all "foundational principles of biology", it will be indefinitely long as it could cover every regularity or finding in every scientific paper in every field of biology ever written, which is plainly absurd. I'll post on the relevant WikiProjects now so we can have a proper discussion of this major and in my view extremely disruptive and misconceived change to the article. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:29, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]