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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART ONE: A Theory of Adaptation
- CHAPTER ONE: Aptations and Selective Agencies
- CHAPTER TWO: Limits to Adaptation
- CHAPTER THREE: Hypotheses and Their Evaluation in a Historical Science
- PART TWO: The Acquisition of Resources
- CHAPTER FOUR: Mechanisms and History of Competition
- CHAPTER FIVE: Safe Places, Anachronistic Aptations, and the Recycling of Resources
- CHAPTER SIX: The Predators of Armored Animals: Functional Morphology and History
- PART THREE: The Evolution of Armor and Locomotion
- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Functional Morphology and History of Gastropod Armor
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Opportunistic Armor: The Evolution of the Conchicolous Habit
- CHAPTER NINE: Locomotion and the Evolution of Movement in Gastropods
- CHAPTER TEN: Armor and Locomotion in Cephalopods
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Armor and Locomotion in Bivalved Animals
- CHAPTER TWELVE: Armor and Locomotion in Articulated Animals
- PART FOUR: Escalation, Diversification, and Extinction
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Dynamics of Escalation
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Extinction
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Implications, Difficulties, and Future Directions
- Appendix
- References
- Index