(DOWNLOAD) "Evolution and Escalation" by Geerat J. Vermeij * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Evolution and Escalation
- Author : Geerat J. Vermeij
- Release Date : January 09, 2021
- Genre: Biology,Books,Science & Nature,Life Sciences,Geography,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 29021 KB
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.