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Evolution and Escalation - An Ecological History of Life

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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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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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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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"An extraordinarily useful book to students of evolutionary paleobiology."---Carlton Brett, Geology

Product details

Authors Geerat Vermeij, Geerat J. Vermeij
Publisher University Presses
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.08.1993
 
EAN 9780691000800
ISBN 978-0-691-00080-0
No. of pages 544
Weight 794 g
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries

Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Applied ecology

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