Best Mollusks
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Geerat Vermeij is a Dutch-American paleobiologist and evolutionary biologist whose research focuses on marine mollusks. He is known for developing the escalation hypothesis, which proposes that evolutionary adaptations in marine organisms are largely driven by predator-prey interactions. Despite bei...
Patricia Kelley is an American paleontologist and geologist whose research examines the evolutionary history of predator-prey interactions, with particular emphasis on drilling predation by naticid and muricid gastropods recorded as boreholes in fossil bivalve and gastropod shells. She has conducted...
Warren Allmon is an American paleontologist specializing in fossil mollusks and the history of paleontology, and a former director of Cornell's Paleontological Research Institution.
Elinor Wight Gardner was an American geologist and paleontologist noted for documenting Gulf Coast mollusks for the United States Geological Survey.
Dana Geary is an American paleontologist known for studying molluscan evolution, including speciation and environmental change in Europe's ancient Lake Pannon.
Bruce Runnegar is an Australian paleontologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), whose research focuses on early animal evolution and molluscan paleontology. He served as director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute starting in 2002, overseeing interdisciplinary resea...
