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Graham E. Budd
Professor in Palaeobiology
Department of Earth Sciences
Palaeobiology
Villavägen 16
SE-752 36 Uppsala
SWEDEN
Phone: + 46 18 471 27 62
Fax: + 46 18 471 27 49
e-mail: graham.budd@pal.uu.se |
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Research
interests
Origins and
evolution of complex animals, with particular reference to the
arthropods
My principal research interests revolve around the so-called 'Cambrian
explosion' of some 545 million years ago. |
They
include:
● The
Sirius Passet fauna - an exceptionally preserved Early Cambrian fauna
from North Greenland.
● The
origin and early evolution of the arthropods - work largely based on
the study of exceptionally preserved Cambrian material.
● Head
segmentation in fossil and recent arthropods.
● The
origin
of
the
phyla:
an
integrated
approach
combining evidence from
fossils, trace fossils and functional morphology.
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● The
evolution of functional morphology - the study of how complex body plan
systems of animals arise and subsequently evolve. This work is focused
at the moment on the evolution of muscle in lobopods and arthropods.
● The
theory of the evolution of development - how has the genetic basis for
morphology evolved, and can it be reconciled with the fossil record and
Neodarwinian models for microevolutionary change? |
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