Graham Edward Budd is a British
palaeontologist. He is
Professor and head of
palaeobiology
Paleobiology (or palaeobiology) is an interdisciplinary field that combines the methods and findings found in both the earth sciences and the life sciences. Paleobiology is not to be confused with geobiology, which focuses more on the interactio ...
at
Uppsala University.
Budd's research focuses on the
Cambrian explosion
The Cambrian explosion, Cambrian radiation, Cambrian diversification, or the Biological Big Bang refers to an interval of time approximately in the Cambrian Period when practically all major animal phyla started appearing in the fossil recor ...
and on the
evolution and development,
anatomy, and
patterns of diversification of the
Ecdysozoa
Ecdysozoa () is a group of protostome animals, including Arthropoda (insects, chelicerata, crustaceans, and myriapods), Nematoda, and several smaller phyla. They were first defined by Aguinaldo ''et al.'' in 1997, based mainly on phylogenetic tr ...
, a group of animals that include
arthropods
Arthropods (, (gen. ποδός)) are invertebrate animals with an exoskeleton, a Segmentation (biology), segmented body, and paired jointed appendages. Arthropods form the phylum Arthropoda. They are distinguished by their jointed limbs and Arth ...
.
Life and work
Budd was born on 7 September 1968 in
Colchester (
Essex). He obtained his undergraduate degree at the
University of Cambridge and remained there to continue his studies at a doctoral level by investigating the
Sirius Passet fossil
lagerstätte from the
Cambrian
The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...
of
North Greenland
The Northern Inspectorate of Greenland also known as North Greenland was a Danish inspectorate on Greenland consisting of the trading centers and missionary stations along the northwest coast of the island.
History
North Greenland was establis ...
.
He finished his doctorate in 1994, with one of the findings being a new species of
lobopodian
The lobopodians, members of the informal group Lobopodia (from the Greek language, Greek, meaning "blunt feet"), or the formally erected phylum Lobopoda Cavalier-Smith (1998), are panarthropods with stubby legs called lobopods, a term which may ...
, ''
Kerygmachela''.
Budd then moved to Sweden as a
postdoc
A postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral researcher, or simply postdoc, is a person professionally conducting research after the completion of their doctoral studies (typically a PhD). The ultimate goal of a postdoctoral research position is to p ...
along with his PhD supervisor John Peel.
Together with
Sören Jensen
Sören is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Euro ...
he reintroduced the concepts of stem and
crown group
In phylogenetics, the crown group or crown assemblage is a collection of species composed of the living representatives of the collection, the most recent common ancestor of the collection, and all descendants of the most recent common ancestor. ...
s to
phylogenetics[ ] and is a major critic of
molecular clocks current usage in determining the origin of animal and plant groups.
He has edited
Acta Zoologica 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 h ...
; he has also edited the
Geological Magazine.
Accolates
*
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.
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
See also
* Arthropod head problem
References
External links
Graham Budd's web page at Uppsala University
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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