Graham Budd

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Graham E. Budd

| image = Graham Budd 2011 Västergötland.jpg

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| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|7 September 1968}}

| birth_place = Colchester, England

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| nationality = British

| field = Palaeontology

| work_institution = Uppsala University

| alma_mater = University of Cambridge

| doctoral_advisor = Simon Conway Morris
John Peel{{cite web |url=https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01020-X |title=Graham E. Budd |date=July 11, 2022|website=cell.com |access-date=July 21, 2022 |quote=|language=english}}

| known_for = Early bilateral "Savannah" hypothesis

| prizes = Hodson Fund of the Palaeontological Association President's Medal of the Palaeontological Association Nathorst Prize of the Geologiska Foreningen

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Graham Edward Budd is a British palaeontologist. He is Professor and head of palaeobiology at Uppsala University.{{cite web|url=https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N96-3875 |title=Graham E Budd |website=uu.se |access-date=July 21, 2022 |quote=|language=english}}{{cite web|url=https://www.geo.uu.se/research/palaeobiology/about-us/ |title=About us |website=uu.se |access-date=July 21, 2022 |quote=|language=english}}

Budd's research focuses on the Cambrian explosion and on the evolution and development, anatomy, and patterns of diversification of the Ecdysozoa, a group of animals that include arthropods.

Life and work

Budd was born on 7 September 1968 in Colchester (Essex). He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge and remained there, in the Department of Earth Sciences, to continue his studies at a doctoral level by investigating the Sirius Passet fossil lagerstätte from the Cambrian of North Greenland. He finished his doctorate in 1994, with one of the findings being a new species of lobopodian, Kerygmachela.{{citation | last1 = Budd | first1 = Graham | year = 1993 | title = A Cambrian gilled lobopod from Greenland | journal = Nature | volume = 364 | issue = 6439 | pages = 709–711 | doi = 10.1038/364709a0 | s2cid = 4341971 | url = https://www.nature.com/articles/364709a0| url-access = subscription }} Budd then moved to Sweden as a postdoc along with his PhD supervisor John Peel.

Together with Sören Jensen he reintroduced the concepts of stem and crown groups to phylogenetics{{citation | last1 = Budd | first1 = G.E. | last2 = Jensen | first2 = S. | year = 2000 | title = A critical reappraisal of the fossil record of the bilaterian phyla | journal = Biological Reviews | volume = 75 | issue = 2 | pages = 253–295 | doi = 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00046.x | url = http://journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=624 | pmid=10881389| s2cid = 39772232 | url-access = subscription }} and is a major critic of molecular clocks current usage in determining the origin of animal and plant groups.{{citation | last1 = Budd | first1 = Graham E. | last2 = Mann | first2 = Richard P. | year = 2020 | title = Survival and selection biases in early animal evolution and a source of systematic overestimation in molecular clocks| journal = Interface Focus | volume = 10 | issue = 4 | pages = 20190110 | doi = 10.1098/rsfs.2019.0110 | pmid = 32637066 | pmc = 7333906 | doi-access = free }}{{citation | last1 = Budd | first1 = Graham E. | last2 = Mann | first2 = Richard P. | last3 = Doyle | first3 = James A. | last4 = Coiro | first4 = Mario | last5 = Hilton | first5= Jason | year = 2021 | title = Fossil data do not support a long pre-Cretaceous history of flowering plants | journal = bioRxiv | publisher = Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | pages = 1–9 | doi = 10.1101/2021.02.16.431478 | s2cid = 231981357 | url = https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2021/02/17/2021.02.16.431478.full.pdf}}

He has edited Acta Zoologica together with Lennart Olsson; he has also edited the Geological Magazine.

Accolades

Hodson Fund of the Palaeontological Association in 2002.
President's Medal of the Palaeontological Association in 2015.
Nathorst Prize of the Geologiska Foreningen in 2021.[https://geologiskaforeningen.se/graham-budd-tilldelas-geologiska-foreningens-nathorstpris/ Graham Budd tilldelas Geologiska Föreningens Nathorstpris], 2021-11-08

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.
G. E. Budd. 2017. The origin of the animals and a ‘Savannah’ hypothesis for early bilaterian evolution. Biological Reviews 92(1), 446-473