Graham Budd

Graham E. Budd
Born	7 September 1968 (1968-09-07) (age 56) Colchester, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Early bilaterian "Savannah" hypothesis
Awards	Hodson Fund of the Palaeontological Association President's Medal of the Palaeontological Association Nathorst Prize of the Geologiska Foreningen
Scientific career
Fields	Palaeontology
Institutions	Uppsala University
Doctoral advisor	Simon Conway Morris John Peel [1]

Graham Edward Budd 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 (Essex). 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

• 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. ^[8]

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

1. "Graham E. Budd". cell.com. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
2. "Graham E Budd". uu.se. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
3. "About us". uu.se. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
4. Budd, Graham (1993), "A Cambrian gilled lobopod from Greenland" , Nature, 364 (6439): 709–711, 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, 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): 20190110, 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" (PDF), bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: 1–9, doi:10.1101/2021.02.16.431478, S2CID   231981357
8. Graham Budd tilldelas Geologiska Föreningens Nathorstpris, 2021-11-08

External links

• Graham Budd's web page at Uppsala University