Emery's rule (Parasitology 🧬)

Emery's rule is the trend of social parasites to be parasites to species or genera they are closely related to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emery's_rule

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Heuristic (Ecogeographic rules 🌍)

A heuristic 'method of discovery', or heuristic technique is any approach to problem solving that employs a pragmatic method that is not fully optimized, perfected, or rationalized, but is nevertheless "good enough" as an approximation or attribute substitution. Where finding an optimal solution is impossible or impractical, heuristic m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic

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