Greg Edgecombe | |
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![]() Gregory Edgecombe at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018 | |
Born | Gregory Donald Edgecombe |
Alma mater | Acadia University (BSc) University of Alberta (MSc)[3] Columbia University (PhD)[2] |
Awards | Fenner Medal (2004) |
Scientific career | |
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Institutions | University of Alberta Australian Museum Natural History Museum, London |
Thesis | Systematic studies on the trilobite order Phacopida (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Niles Eldredge[2] |
Website | www |
Gregory Donald Edgecombe FRS[4] is a merit researcher in the department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum, London.[5][6] He is a leading figure in understanding the evolution of arthropods, their position in animal evolution and the integration of fossil data into analyses of animal phylogeny.[4] As a palaeontologist, he is also an authority on the systematics of centipedes – and a morphologist whose work contributes to the growth and methods of analysis of molecular datasets for inferring evolutionary relationships.[4][1][7]
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