Graham Edward Budd is a British palaeontologist. He is Professor and head of palaeobiology at Uppsala University.[2][3]
Graham E. Budd | |
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| Born | 7 September 1968 (age 56) |
| 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] |
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]
Life and work
editBudd 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.
Accolades
edit- Hodson Fund of the Palaeontological Association in 2002.
- President's Medal of the Palaeontological Association in 2015.
- Nathorst Prize of the Geologiska Foreningen in 2021.[8]
Selected publications
edit- G. E. Budd. 2002. A palaeontological solution to the arthropod head problem. Nature 417: 271-275.
- G. E. Budd. 2006. On the origin and evolution of major morphological characters. Biological Reviews 81: 609-628.
- G. E. Budd. 2017. The origin of the animals and a ‘Savannah’ hypothesis for early bilaterian evolution. Biological Reviews 92(1), 446-473
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d "Graham E. Budd". cell.com. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ "Graham E Budd". uu.se. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ "About us". uu.se. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ Budd, Graham (1993), "A Cambrian gilled lobopod from Greenland", Nature, 364 (6439): 709–711, doi:10.1038/364709a0, S2CID 4341971
- ^ Budd, G.E.; Jensen, S. (2000), "A critical reappraisal of the fossil record of the bilaterian phyla", Biological Reviews, 75 (2): 253–295, doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00046.x, PMID 10881389, S2CID 39772232
- ^ Budd, Graham E.; Mann, Richard P. (2020), "Survival and selection biases in early animal evolution and a source of systematic overestimation in molecular clocks", Interface Focus, 10 (4): 20190110, doi:10.1098/rsfs.2019.0110, PMC 7333906, PMID 32637066
- ^ Budd, Graham E.; Mann, Richard P.; Doyle, James A.; Coiro, Mario; Hilton, Jason (2021), "Fossil data do not support a long pre-Cretaceous history of flowering plants" (PDF), bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: 1–9, doi:10.1101/2021.02.16.431478, S2CID 231981357
- ^ Graham Budd tilldelas Geologiska Föreningens Nathorstpris, 2021-11-08