Biogeography and Adaptation
Patterns of Marine Life
Geerat J. Vermeij
Harvard University Press, 1978
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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