"Haldane's rule" meaning in English

See Haldane's rule in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Formulated in 1922 by the British evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Haldane's rule
  1. An observation about the early stage of speciation, stating that if in a species hybrid only one sex is inviable or sterile, that sex is more likely to be the heterogametic sex. Wikipedia link: Haldane's rule

Download JSON data for Haldane's rule meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Formulated in 1922 by the British evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Haldane's rule",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 181",
          "text": "One study hints at the possibility that Haldane's rule may have been the cause of the lack of Neanderthal DNA on the Y-chromosome of hybrids, but currently we do not definitively know.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An observation about the early stage of speciation, stating that if in a species hybrid only one sex is inviable or sterile, that sex is more likely to be the heterogametic sex."
      ],
      "id": "en-Haldane's_rule-en-name-duyvqWux",
      "links": [
        [
          "speciation",
          "speciation"
        ],
        [
          "species",
          "species"
        ],
        [
          "hybrid",
          "hybrid"
        ],
        [
          "sex",
          "sex"
        ],
        [
          "inviable",
          "inviable"
        ],
        [
          "sterile",
          "sterile"
        ],
        [
          "heterogametic",
          "heterogametic"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Haldane's rule"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Haldane's rule"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Formulated in 1922 by the British evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Haldane's rule",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 181",
          "text": "One study hints at the possibility that Haldane's rule may have been the cause of the lack of Neanderthal DNA on the Y-chromosome of hybrids, but currently we do not definitively know.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An observation about the early stage of speciation, stating that if in a species hybrid only one sex is inviable or sterile, that sex is more likely to be the heterogametic sex."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speciation",
          "speciation"
        ],
        [
          "species",
          "species"
        ],
        [
          "hybrid",
          "hybrid"
        ],
        [
          "sex",
          "sex"
        ],
        [
          "inviable",
          "inviable"
        ],
        [
          "sterile",
          "sterile"
        ],
        [
          "heterogametic",
          "heterogametic"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Haldane's rule"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Haldane's rule"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.