Please answer the following question: 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 .