RESEARCH
"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly." Following this quote of Plato (in The Republic), I am looking for 'simplicity' – to explain complex phenomena in the fossil record.
Key topics |
Taxonomic scopes
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1. Paleontology
2. Macroevolution and mass extinctions 3. Evolutionary developmental biology 4. Paleoecology |
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Selected project themes
- Late Cretaceous marine vertebrates from northern Gulf of Mexico
- Evolution and paleoecology of Devonian trees
- Evolution and biomechanics of archosaur vertebrae