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Evolution and Escalation: An Ecological History of Life

By Geerat Vermeij

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780691224244
DOI
10.1515/9780691224244
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
38 MB (39984523 bytes)
Pages
547\538
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 23:55:41

Description

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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