Graham Edward Budd is a British

palaeontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

. He is

Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

and head of palaeobiology at

Uppsala University Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. The university rose to significance during ...

. Budd's research focuses on the Cambrian explosion and on the evolution and development,

anatomy Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having it ...

, and patterns of diversification of the Ecdysozoa, a group of animals that include arthropods.

Life and work

Budd was born on 7 September 1968 in

Colchester Colchester ( ) is a city in Essex, in the East of England. It had a population of 122,000 in 2011. The demonym is Colcestrian. Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colch ...

(

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Grea ...

). He obtained his undergraduate degree at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

and remained there to continue his studies at a doctoral level by investigating the

Sirius Passet Sirius Passet is a Cambrian Lagerstätte in Peary Land, Greenland. The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte was named after the Sirius sledge patrol that operates in North Greenland. It comprises six places in Nansen Land, on the east shore of J.P. Koch F ...

fossil

lagerstätte A Lagerstätte (, from ''Lager'' 'storage, lair' '' Stätte'' 'place'; plural ''Lagerstätten'') is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues. These f ...

from the Cambrian of North Greenland. He finished his doctorate in 1994, with one of the findings being a new species of lobopodian, ''

Kerygmachela ''Kerygmachela kierkegaardi'' is a gilled lobopodian from the Cambrian Stage 3 aged Sirius Passet Lagerstätte in northern Greenland. Its anatomy strongly suggests that it, along with its relative '' Pambdelurion whittingtoni'', was a close rela ...

''. Budd then moved to Sweden as a postdoc along with his PhD supervisor John Peel. Together with Sören Jensen he reintroduced the concepts of stem and crown groups to

phylogenetics In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups ...

and is a major critic of

molecular clocks The molecular clock is a figurative term for a technique that uses the mutation rate of biomolecules to deduce the time in prehistory when two or more life forms diverged. The biomolecular data used for such calculations are usually nucleoti ...

current usage in determining the origin of animal and plant groups. He has edited

Acta Zoologica ''Acta Zoologica'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. It was established in 1920 as ''Acta Zoologica'' and ...

together with

Lennart Olsson Lennart Olsson, born 1961, is a Swedish zoologist and embryologist, professor of comparative zoology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Olsson focuses his research primarily on the embryological development of the vertebrate he ...

; he has also edited the

Geological Magazine The ''Geological Magazine'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1864, covering the earth sciences. It publishes original scientific research papers on geological topics. The journal is published bimonthly by Cambridge University ...

Accolates

* Hodson Fund of the

Palaeontological Association The Palaeontological Association (PalAss for short) is a charitable organisation based in the UK founded in 1957 for the promotion of the study of palaeontology and allied sciences. Publications The Association publishes two main journals: ' ...

in 2002. * President's Medal of the

in 2015. * Nathorst Prize of the Geologiska Foreningen in 2021.Graham Budd tilldelas Geologiska Föreningens Nathorstpris
2021-11-08

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

References

External links

Graham Budd's web page at Uppsala University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Budd, Graham 1968 births British palaeontologists English palaeontologists Swedish paleontologists Swedish scientists Living people Paleobiologists Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge

Life and work

Accolates

Selected publications

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