Graham E. Budd | |
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Born | 7 September 1968 | (age 55)
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Early bilateral "Savannah" hypothesis |
Awards | Hodson Fund of the Palaeontological Association President's Medal of the Palaeontological Association Nathorst Prize of the Geologiska Foreningen |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Palaeontology |
Institutions | Uppsala University |
Doctoral advisor |
Simon Conway Morris John Peel [1] |
Graham Edward Budd is a British palaeontologist. He is Professor and head of palaeobiology at Uppsala University. [2] [3]
Budd's research focuses on the Cambrian explosion and on the evolution and development, anatomy, and patterns of diversification of the Ecdysozoa, a group of animals that include arthropods. [1]
Budd was born on 7 September 1968 in Colchester ( Essex). He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge and remained there, in the Department of Earth Sciences, to continue his studies at a doctoral level by investigating the Sirius Passet fossil lagerstätte from the Cambrian of North Greenland. [1] He finished his doctorate in 1994, with one of the findings being a new species of lobopodian, Kerygmachela. [4] Budd then moved to Sweden as a postdoc along with his PhD supervisor John Peel. [1]
Together with Sören Jensen he reintroduced the concepts of stem and crown groups to phylogenetics [5] and is a major critic of molecular clocks current usage in determining the origin of animal and plant groups. [6] [7]
He has edited Acta Zoologica together with Lennart Olsson; he has also edited the Geological Magazine.