Evolution and Escalation : : An Ecological History of Life /

Evolution and Escalation : : An Ecological History of Life / / Geerat J. Vermeij.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Archive 1931-1999
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Vermeij, Geerat J.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1987
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (547 p.)
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245 1 0 |a Evolution and Escalation :  |b An Ecological History of Life /  |c Geerat J. Vermeij. 
264 1 |a Princeton, NJ :   |b Princeton University Press,   |c [2021] 
264 4 |c ©1987 
300 |a 1 online resource (547 p.) 
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t PART ONE: A Theory of Adaptation --   |t CHAPTER ONE: Aptations and Selective Agencies --   |t CHAPTER TWO: Limits to Adaptation --   |t CHAPTER THREE: Hypotheses and Their Evaluation in a Historical Science --   |t PART TWO: The Acquisition of Resources --   |t CHAPTER FOUR: Mechanisms and History of Competition --   |t CHAPTER FIVE: Safe Places, Anachronistic Aptations, and the Recycling of Resources --   |t CHAPTER SIX: The Predators of Armored Animals: Functional Morphology and History --   |t PART THREE: The Evolution of Armor and Locomotion --   |t CHAPTER SEVEN: The Functional Morphology and History of Gastropod Armor --   |t CHAPTER EIGHT: Opportunistic Armor: The Evolution of the Conchicolous Habit --   |t CHAPTER NINE: Locomotion and the Evolution of Movement in Gastropods --   |t CHAPTER TEN: Armor and Locomotion in Cephalopods --   |t CHAPTER ELEVEN: Armor and Locomotion in Bivalved Animals --   |t CHAPTER TWELVE: Armor and Locomotion in Articulated Animals --   |t PART FOUR: Escalation, Diversification, and Extinction --   |t CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Dynamics of Escalation --   |t CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Extinction --   |t CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Implications, Difficulties, and Future Directions --   |t Appendix --   |t References --   |t Index 
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520 |a 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. 
538 |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 
546 |a In English. 
588 0 |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mrz 2021) 
650 0 |a Ecology. 
650 0 |a Evolution (Biology). 
650 7 |a SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.  |2 bisacsh 
653 |a Hyolitha. 
653 |a Opiliones. 
653 |a Paleocene epoch. 
653 |a acanthodian fishes. 
653 |a arachnid arthropods. 
653 |a archaeocyathans. 
653 |a bioerosion. 
653 |a bioturbation. 
653 |a bryozoans. 
653 |a calcification. 
653 |a caves, as safe places. 
653 |a cetacean mammals. 
653 |a chitons. 
653 |a cladoceran crustaceans. 
653 |a crinoid echinoderms. 
653 |a crocodiles. 
653 |a didemnid ascidians. 
653 |a dispersal. 
653 |a echiuran worms. 
653 |a endothermy. 
653 |a eurypterids. 
653 |a extralimital evolution. 
653 |a fitness. 
653 |a fungi. 
653 |a glypheoid crustaceans. 
653 |a growth rate. 
653 |a gymnosperms. 
653 |a herbivory. 
653 |a hermatypic animals. 
653 |a hippuritacean pelecypods. 
653 |a holothurioidean echinoderms. 
653 |a improvement, unilateral. 
653 |a intimate associations. 
653 |a introduced species. 
653 |a isopod crustaceans. 
653 |a lapworthellids. 
653 |a limpets. 
653 |a mangroves. 
653 |a metabolic rates. 
653 |a mimicry. 
653 |a natural selection. 
653 |a nautiloid cephalopods. 
653 |a octopod cephalopods. 
653 |a opercula. 
653 |a parasitism. 
653 |a phoronid worms. 
653 |a photosynthesis. 
653 |a placoderm fishes. 
653 |a predation. 
653 |a rachiglossan gastropods. 
653 |a rhyniophytes. 
653 |a rugosan corals. 
653 |a safe places. 
653 |a salamanders. 
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