Privileged hands: A scientific life
Vermeij, G. (1996). Privileged hands: A scientific life. W.H. Freeman and Company: New York. ISBN 978-0716729549. 297 pp.
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VLIZ: Personal and Institutional Histories [105073]
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Animal products > Shells
Biological phenomena > Evolution
Palaeo studies > Palaeontology
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| Abstract |
The autobiography of this evolutionary biologist and paleontologist (blind since the age of four), reveals how he overcame his presumed handicap and profited from it, developing an awareness of details completely apart from a reliance on vision. |
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