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 foss ...

. He is

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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 duri ...

. 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 reco ...

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 its ...

, 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 ...

, a group of animals that include

arthropods Arthropods (, (gen. ποδός)) are invertebrate animals with an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages. Arthropods form the phylum Arthropoda. They are distinguished by their jointed limbs and cuticle made of chitin, ...

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. Col ...

(

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, an ...

). He obtained his undergraduate degree at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

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 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 years ag ...

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 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 pu ...

along with his PhD supervisor John Peel. Together with Sören Jensen 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 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 current usage in determining the origin of animal and plant groups. He has edited Acta Zoologica together with Lennart Olsson; 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

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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