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 Edgecombe is an American[citation needed] paleontologist who is a merit researcher in the department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum, London.[4][5] 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.[6] 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.[6][1][7]
Education
[edit]Edgecombe was educated at Columbia University where he received a PhD in 1991 for systematic studies on the trilobite order Phacopida supervised by Niles Eldredge at the American Museum of Natural History.[2]
Career and research
[edit]After his PhD, Edgecombe was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta, and worked as a researcher at the Australian Museum in Sydney for 14 years.[6] In 2007, he took up the position of research leader at the Natural History Museum, London, where since 2013 he has been a Natural 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 the Palaeontological Association in 2011, and the Fenner Medal for distinguished research in biology by the Australian Academy of Science in 2004.[6] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.[6] In 2024, a new megacheiran arthropod, Lomankus edgecombei was named after Edgecombe.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Gregory Edgecombe publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b c Edgecombe, Gregory Donald (1991). Systematic studies on the trilobite order Phacopida (PhD thesis). Columbia University. OCLC 933526770. ProQuest 303964340.
- ^ Greg Edgecombe's ORCID 0000-0002-9591-8011
- ^ "Dr Greg Edgecombe". nhm.ac.uk. Natural History Museum.
- ^ Gregory Edgecombe publications from Europe PubMed Central
- ^ a b c d e f Anon (2018). "Dr Gregory Edgecombe FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Terms, conditions and policies | Royal Society". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
{{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. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 18322464. S2CID 4397099.
- ^ Katie Hunt (29 October 2024). "Stunning fossil preserved in fool's gold reveals newly identified 450 million-year-old species". CNN.
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