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Science 19 November 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5700, p. 1294
DOI: 10.1126/science.1104293
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EVOLUTION:
More Than Metaphorical Power?

A review by Douglas H. Erwin

Nature An Economic History
by Geerat J. Vermeij
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. 461 pp. $35, £22.95. ISBN 0-691-11527-3.

The author discusses fundamental economic principles that, he argues, have determined the historical patterns of biological systems as well as those of human economics.
The reviewer is at the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560, USA, and the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. E-mail: erwind{at}si.edu

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