John started following the work of 2 people.
John started following the work of 2 people.
John started following the work of Stephen McLoughlin, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobotany.
Graduate Student, Earth Sciences
University of Bristol, Earth Sciences
DPhil Student
St Hugh's College
Thesis Title: Evolutionary patterns underlying extreme contrasts in richness and disparity within the vertebrate tree of life
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Matt Friedman
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About
I am currently completing a PhD in Earth Science at the University of Oxford, supervised by Matt Friedman. Prior to this, I completed a BSc in Biology followed by an MSc in Palaeobiology (supervised by Phil Donoghue), both at the University of Bristol.
Research Interests
Evolutionary biology is the central theme to many of my research interests. I see particular value in the study of large scale evolutionary patterns and processes in order to tease out generalities which have relevance across the tree of life. This focus upon large scale dynamics has led me to expand my biological interests into deep time, realising the utility of palaeontological data to biological problems. There are few finer examples of this than in molecular clock procedure, where fossil data enables the rate determining step whereby branch lengths can be converted to time. In previous work, I sought to improve the implementation of fossil data in molecular clock dating across the major splits in land plants. In current work, I seek to explore reasons behind the uneven partitioning of diversity (in all its guises) across the tree of life, and to test whether genome duplication has any role to play in this uneven partitioning.
Contact Information
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| Address: | John T. Clarke |
| IM: | Skype: John.Clarke.Paleo |
