Gregory Edgecombe
Gregory Edgecombe | |
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| Alma mater | Acadia University University of Alberta[3] Columbia University[2] |
| Awards | Fenner Medal(2004) |
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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 Edgecombeis an American[citation needed]paleontologist who is a merit researcher in the department ofEarth Sciencesat theNatural History Museum, London.[4][5]He is a leading figure in understanding the evolution ofarthropods,their position inanimal evolutionand the integration of fossil data into analyses of animalphylogeny.[6]As apalaeontologist,he is also an authority on thesystematicsofcentipedes– and amorphologistwhose work contributes to the growth and methods of analysis of molecular datasets for inferring evolutionary relationships.[6][1][7]
Education
[edit]Edgecombe was educated atColumbia Universitywhere he received aPhDin 1991 forsystematic studieson thetrilobiteorderPhacopidasupervised byNiles Eldredgeat theAmerican Museum of Natural History.[2]
Career and research
[edit]After his PhD, Edgecombe was apostdoctoral researcherat theUniversity of Alberta,and worked as a researcher at theAustralian MuseuminSydneyfor 14 years.[6]In 2007, he took up the position of research leader at theNatural History Museum, London,where since 2013 he has been aNatural Environment Research Council(NERC) merit researcher.[6]With Gonzalo Giribet, he co-authored a textbook,The Invertebrate Tree of Life,published by Princeton University Press in March 2020.
Awards and honours
[edit]Edgecombe was awarded the president's medal by thePalaeontological Associationin 2011, and the Fenner Medal for distinguished research in biology by theAustralian Academy of Sciencein 2004.[6]He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society(FRS) in 2018.[6]
References
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- ^abcEdgecombe, Gregory Donald (1991).Systematic studies on the trilobite order Phacopida(PhD thesis). Columbia University.OCLC933526770.ProQuest303964340.
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- ^"Dr Greg Edgecombe".nhm.ac.uk.Natural History Museum.
- ^Gregory Edgecombepublications fromEurope PubMed Central
- ^abcdefAnon (2018)."Dr Gregory Edgecombe FRS".London:Royal Society.One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^Dunn, Casey W.; Hejnol, Andreas; Matus, David Q.; Pang, Kevin; Browne, William E.; Smith, Stephen A.; Seaver, Elaine; Rouse, Greg W.; Obst, Matthias; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Sørensen, Martin V.; Haddock, Steven H. D.; Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas; Okusu, Akiko; Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg; Wheeler, Ward C.; Martindale, Mark Q.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2008). "Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life".Nature.452(7188): 745–749.Bibcode:2008Natur.452..745D.doi:10.1038/nature06614.ISSN0028-0836.PMID18322464.S2CID4397099.
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