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Strait Answers from a Twisted Isthmus - Evolution and Environment in Tropical America. Edited by Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Ann F. Budd, and Anthony G. Coates University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1996. 434 pages, $75.00; paperback, $27.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Geerat J. Vermeij*
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Department of Geology and Center for Population Biology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, E-mail: vermeij@geology.ucdavis.edu

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