On escalation

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-19

  Vermeij, Geerat J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Competition; Enabling factors; Phanerozoic; Predation; Red Queen

Indexed keywords

CO-EVOLUTION; ENABLING FACTORS; PHANEROZOIC; PREDATION; RED QUEEN;

COMPETITION;

COEVOLUTION; EPISODIC EVENT; OXYGEN; PHANEROZOIC; RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS;

EID: 84878724870     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-050212-124123     Document Type: Article

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