Privileged Hands
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 "arms race" among mollusks, Dr. Vermeij is blind.
No ordinary autobiography, Privi...
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 "arms race" among mollusks, Dr. Vermeij is blind.
No ordinary autobiography, Privi...
