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Awards & Prizes

George Gaylord Simpson Prize

George Gaylord Simpson Prize

This annual award invites Yale University graduate students and recent PhD graduates to submit one first-authored paper concerning evolution and the fossil record.

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Addison Emery Verrill Medal

Addison Emery Verrill Medal

Awarded by the curators and trustees of the Yale Peabody Museum, the medal was established in 1959 to honor Yale scientist Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926), one of the 19th-century’s great zoologists known worldwide for his studies of starfish, squids, corals and other marine animals.

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