Evolution and Escalation: An Ecological History of Life

by Geerat J. Vermeij

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691084467
• ISBN13: 9780691084466
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.8" x 10.0"