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- Evolution: The rise and fall of island dwarfs and giantsPublication . Matthews, Thomas J.ABSTRACT: Islands are arenas for a range of striking evolutionary phenomena, including the island rule - the tendency for larger animals to shrink and smaller animals to enlarge. A new study of insular mammals finds such body size shifts predispose these evolutionary marvels to greater extinction risk.