
Phil Donoghue
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Fondler of fossils, University of Bristol. Interested in causes and consequences of major evolutionary transitions. Some views shared by others, surely?
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Commentary by Lewis Alcott and myself on the recent study by Richard Stockey and friends of the Late Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic oxygenation of the biosphere. UoB Palaeobiology University of Bristol Earth Sciences Geobiology: When did animals develop their oxygen habit? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…


Leverhulme Trust Early Career PostDoc Fellowships (for UK degree holders) leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-f… are supported by UoB Palaeobiology. If you are interested in applying, please get in touch with one of our fossil- or genome-fondlers



Awesome talk on the palaeobiology of Ediacaran beasties using computed fluid dynamics by Imran Rahman Imran Rahman at last week's Palaeo Seminar UoB Palaeobiology University of Bristol Earth Sciences


In this week's palaeo seminar we have Saupe Lab Oxford telling us about climate change as a predictor of extinction risk in deep time UoB Palaeobiology University of Bristol Earth Sciences


Funded PhD on plant genome and phenome evolution Milner Centre for Evolution University of Bath with the awesome James Clark James Clark

This week we've been celebrating our first 10 years in the Life Sciences Building University of Bristol University of Bristol Biological Sciences, culminating in last night's soirée where our very own Liz Martin-Silverstone Liz Martin-Silverstone received the 'unsung hero' award! The next decade starts today! UoB Palaeobiology


We presented our Tree of Life outreach project Bristol Cathedral Festival of Gaia. The quilt was created by Ilaria Padovani and Julie Harvey, and represents the history of Earth and Life. Here supported by project scientists Davide Pisani, Chris Kay UoB Palaeobiology PurposeProject


In this week's palaeo seminar, our own Daniela Schmidt told us about palaeontology's contribution to understanding climate change, including her work informing policy from IPCC to local government UoB Palaeobiology


This week's palaeo research seminar UoB Palaeobiology was from Field Palaeobiology Research Group on '200 years of dinosaurs, avian antecedents', a review of Dan's group's amazing discoveries of the past few years, plus equally exciting new insights into early bird evolution


Fun UoB Palaeobiology and friends collab which shows that aerobic bacteria arose in the Archaean, long before the GOE - after which aerobes proliferated through HGT. A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our latest, led by James Clark of Milner Centre for Evolution shows that the notorious mismatch between molecular and palaeontological estimates for the timing of origin of flowering plants is a consequence of the equivocal interpretation of their fossil record royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…