Graham Budd
Birth placeColchester, England, United Kingdom
FieldPalaeontology
Work institutionUppsala University
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Doctoral advisorSimon Morris
John Peel[1]
Known forEarly bilaterian "Savannah" hypothesis
PrizesHodson Fund of the Palaeontological Association President's Medal of the Palaeontological Association Nathorst Prize of the Geologiska Foreningen

Graham Edward Budd (born 7 September 1968) 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]

Life and work

Budd was born on 7 September 1968 in Colchester, England. 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

Selected publications

  • 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

References

  1. ^ Budd, Graham E. (July 11, 2022). "Graham E. Budd". Current Biology. 32 (13): R723–R724. Bibcode:2022CBio...32.R723B. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.058. Retrieved July 21, 2022.
  2. ^ "Graham E Budd". uu.se. Retrieved July 21, 2022.
  3. ^ "About us". uu.se. Archived from the original on 20 July 2022. Retrieved July 21, 2022.
  4. ^ Budd, Graham (1993), "A Cambrian gilled lobopod from Greenland", Nature. 364 (6439): 709–711, Bibcode:1993Natur.364..709B. doi:10.1038/364709a0. S2CID 4341971
  5. ^ Budd, G.E. & Jensen, S. (2000), "A critical reappraisal of the fossil record of the bilaterian phyla", Biological Reviews. 75 (2): 253–295, Bibcode:2000BioRv..75..253B. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00046.x. PMID 10881389. S2CID 39772232
  6. ^ 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), doi:10.1098/rsfs.2019.0110. PMC 7333906. PMID 32637066
  7. ^ 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". pp. 1–9. bioRxiv 10.1101/2021.02.16.431478
  8. ^ Graham Budd tilldelas Geologiska Föreningens Nathorstpris, 2021-11-08