Privileged Hands

“An absolutely delightful memoir, tracing the intellectual development and career of a distinguished and consummately likable evolutionary biologist.” — Publishers Weekly His fingers move across the surface of a shell, feeling the ridges and contours, searching for clues, gathering information unnoticed by the untrained eye. For Dr. Geerat Vermeij's fingers are his eyes. One of the most accomplished evolutionary biologists of our time and the world's leading authority on an ancient “ar