Encyclopedia of Evolution.pdf

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF

EVOLUTION

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF

EVOLUTION

STANLEY A. RICE, PH.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,

Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant

Foreword by

MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI, PH.D.

Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution,

State University of New York at Stony Brook

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Rice, Stanley A.

Encyclopedia of evolution / author, Stanley A. Rice.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-8160-5515-7

1. Evolution (Biology)—Encyclopedia. I. Title.

QH360.2.R53 2006

576.803—dc22 2005031646

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