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Geerat Vermeij Professor of Geology Geology 0296 Physics/Geology Building Office 752-2234 Lab vermeij@geology.ucdavis.edu

Degrees:
1971 - PhD - Yale University - Biology

Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Population Biology

Publications:
Vermeij GJ. 1993. A Natural History of Shells. . Princeton University Press, Princeton:

Vermeij GJ. 1999. Inequality and the directionality of history.. American Naturalist. 153:243-253

Vermeij GJ. 1995. Economics, volcanoes, and Phanerozoic revolutions. Paleobiology. 21:125-152

Research Interests:
History of organisms and their enemies through time, biotic interchange today and in the geological past, molluscan biology and functional morphology; relationship between macroeconomics and evolution

Field Sites:
Guam, Panama, cold northern oceans, Indonesia, Florida

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