Geerat J. Vermeij
Geerat J. Vermeij (born September 28, 1946) is a
Dutch-born
paleoecologist and
evolutionary biologist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the
University of California, Davis. He studies marine
molluscs, both as fossils and as living creatures, as well as influence creatures have on each other's evolutionary fates, alongside having worked on plants, crabs, extinction, biological invasions, and biogeography. He received a
MacArthur Fellowship in 1992, and in 2000, was awarded the
Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the
National Academy of Sciences. He was also a fellow of the
California Academy of Sciences in 1992 and was awarded the Fellows Medal from the
California Academy of Sciences in 2017.
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