Q:Facts:   - prizes: bicentenary frs -lrb- 1994 -rrb- darwin medal -lrb- 2006 -rrb- darwin medal -- wallace medal -lrb- 2008 -rrb- of the linnean society -lrb- 1985 -rrb-    - thesis url: http://ethos.bl.uk/orderdetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.449105    - known for: '' evolution '' textbook    - birth name: nicholas hamilton barton    - thesis year: 1979    - work institutions: university and technology austria college london university of edinburgh institute of science    - field: evolutionary biology    - doctoral advisor: godfrey hewitt may 2015      - birth date: 30 august 1955    - thesis title: a pedestris narrow hybrid zone in the alpine grasshopper podisma    - name: nicholas barton    - nationality: british    - alma mater: university anglia -lrb- phd -rrb- of cambridge -lrb- ba -rrb- university of east   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of nick barton .
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nicholas hamilton barton frs frse -lrb- born 30 august 1955 -rrb- is a british evolutionary biologist .