Graham Budd

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Graham Edward Budd (born September 7, 1968, Colchester) is a British palaeontologist, associate professor of paleobiology at Uppsala University.

Budd’s research primarily has focused on the anatomy and evolutionary significance of Paleozoic arthropods and in the integration of palaeontology into evolutionary developmental biology. He has also contributed to the theoretical understanding of the role of functional morphology in evolution.

He is the editor of Acta Zoologica together with Lennart Olsson.

[edit] 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.