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 increase in ability to acquire and retain resources--has been a dominant theme in the history of life despite frequent episodes of extinction.

-- "Science"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691000808
• ISBN13: 9780691000800
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"