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Does ecology matter? - Evolution and Escalation: an ecological history of life. Geerat J. Vermeij Princeton University Press; Princeton, New Jersey. 1987. xv + 527 pp. $47.50.

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Jeremy B. C. Jackson
Jeremy B. C. Jackson*
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balbao, Republic of Panama
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Paleobiology , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , Summer 1988 , pp. 307 - 312
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