Evolution and the fossil record
Paleobiological research in the department studies major transitions in the development of life on Earth, including the development of the earliest life and the dramatic explosion of form at the Cambrian. This work involves field-work, petrography, and geochemical analysis. Recent research in vertebrate paleontology has addressed important gaps in evolutionary sequences. Such research in the department benefits from close interaction with the University Natural History Museuem.
Relevant research group pages (and group leaders)
Palaeobiology (Brasier)
Relevant faculty members and senior research fellows (and expertise)
Martin Brasier (evolution)
Matt Friedman (paleobiology)
Stephen Hesselbo (stratigraphy and past environments)
Jim Kennedy (paleontology)
Derek Siveter (palaeobiology)