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Canadian-born French paleontologist and phylogenetic taxonomist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michel Laurin is a Canadian-born French vertebrate paleontologist whose specialities include the emergence of a land-based lifestyle among vertebrates, the evolution of body size and the origin and phylogeny of lissamphibians. He has also made important contributions to the literature on phylogenetic nomenclature.
Michel Laurin | |
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Born | Michel Laurin |
Alma mater | University of Toronto |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle |
As an undergraduate, he worked in the laboratory of Robert L. Carroll and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto under the direction of Robert R. Reisz; his thesis concerned the osteology of seymouriamorphs.[1] His 1991 review of diapsid phylogeny[2] provided the broadest review of the subject up to that date.[3] In 1995, Laurin and Reisz coauthored a widely cited article providing evidence that the synapsids are the sister group of all other amniotes.[4] He later worked on untangling the phylogeny of the Stegocephalia, a group with a notoriously difficult phylogeny.[5] He later moved to France; since 1998, he has been a CNRS researcher at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.[1]
He is an editor-in-chief of Comptes Rendus Palevol,[6] a journal in the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences family, as well as being a reviewing editor for the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.[7] He has been a key contributor to the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature, where he served as president 2008–2009 and as secretary 2010–2011.[8]
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