Biogeography and Adaptation : Patterns of Marine Life

Geerat J. Vermeij

ISBN 10: 0674073762 / ISBN 13: 9780674073760

Published by Harvard University Press Jan 1978, 1978

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Neuware - The driving forces of natural selection leave their traces in the shapes of living creatures and their patterns of distribution. In this thoughtful and wide-ranging discussion of evolutionary process and adaptive response, Geerat Vermeij elucidates the general principles that underlie the great diversity of marine forms found in the world's great oceans.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Biogeography and Adaptation : Patterns of Marine Life
• Publisher: Harvard University Press Jan 1978
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674073762
• ISBN 13: 9780674073760
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 189H x 23D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 189 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 584 grams

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Synopsis

The driving forces of natural selection leave their traces in the shapes of living creatures and their patterns of distribution. In this thoughtful and wide-ranging discussion of evolutionary process and adaptive response, Geerat Vermeij elucidates the general principles that underlie the great diversity of marine forms found in the world's great oceans.

About the Author

Geerat J. Vermeij, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Geology at the University of California at Davis. Vermeij was born in the Netherlands and came to the United States with his family in 1955. He has received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal by the National Academy of Sciences and was honored as a MacArthur Fellow. He has published more than two hundred scientific papers and five books and served as editor for "Evolution" and "Paleobiology", the foremost journals in their respective fields.