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. 2001 Dec;109(12):A564–A566. doi: 10.1289/ehp.109-a564

Paleoecotoxicology: the impact of chemical and physical stress in the evolutionary process.

J Herkovits
PMCID: PMC1240516  PMID: 11748017

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