Coevolution: the geographic mosaic of coevolutionary arms races.
Coevolutionary arms races between species can favor exaggeration of traits for attack and defense, but relentless escalation of these arms races does not necessarily occur in all populations.
Thompson
John N
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA. Thompson@biology.ucsc.edu
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