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Geerat Vermeij - Evolution and Escalation, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

Evolution and Escalation

An Ecological History of Life

Av Geerat Vermeij

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Here is one biologist's interpretation of the chronology of life during the last six hundred million years of earth history: an extended essay that draws on the author's own data and a wide-ranging literature survey to discuss the nature and dynamics of evolutionary change in organisms and their biological surroundings. Geerat Vermeij demonstrates that escalation--the process by which species adapt to, or are limited by, their enemies as the latter increase in ability to acquire and retain resources--has been a dominant theme in the history of life despite frequent episodes of extinction.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 1993-08-15
  • Mått: 197 x 254 x 36 mm
  • Vikt: 803 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 544
  • Förlag: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN: 9780691000800
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Geerat J. Vermeij, Professor of Geology at the University of California, Davis, is the author of Biogeography and Adaptation: Patterns of Marine Life (Harvard). Vermeij received a 1992 MacArthur Fellowship. See page 24 for a description of his forthcoming book, A Natural History of Shells.

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"With the impressive scope and rich synthesis of this work, the author has assumed the mantle of a provocative pundit of paleobiology."--Science "With the impressive scope and rich synthesis of this work, the author has assumed the mantle of a provocative pundit of paleobiology."--Alan J. Kohn, Science "An extraordinarily useful book to students of evolutionary paleobiology."--Carlton Brett, Geology

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