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Science 5 October 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5540, pp. 64 - 65
DOI: 10.1126/science.1062185
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EVOLUTION:
Explaining Exuberant Diversification

A review by Axel Meyer

The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation
Dolph Schluter
Oxford University Press, New York, 2000. 296 pp. Price $85, £49.50. ISBN 0-19-850523-X. Paper, $34.95, £24.95. ISBN 0-19-850522-1.

In an illuminating discussion that suggests new ways of looking at one of the central concepts of evolutionary biology, Schluter examines the last half century of progress toward identifying the mechanisms responsible for generating ecological and phenotypic diversity within rapidly multiplying lineages.
The author is in the Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Universitaetstrasse 10, Konstanz D-78457 Germany. E-mail: axel.meyer{at}uni-konstanz.de

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