Geerat J. Vermeij
Geerat J. Vermeij (born 28 September 1946 in Sappemeer), is a Dutch-born professor of geology at the University of California, Davis. Blind from the age of three, he moved from The Netherlands to Nutley, New Jersey as a child and graduated from Nutley High School in 1965. Vermeij graduated from Princeton University in 1968 and received his Ph.D. in biology and geology from Yale University in 1971. An evolutionary biologist and paleontologist, he studies marine molluscs both as fossils and as living creatures. He started writing about his Escalation hypothesis in the 1980s. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992. In 2000 Vermeij was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.
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