Gregory Edgecombe

Gregory Donald Edgecombe is an American^{[citation needed]} paleontologist who is a merit researcher in the department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum, London.^[4][5] He is a leading figure in understanding the evolution of arthropods, their position in animal evolution and the integration of fossil data into analyses of animal phylogeny.^[6] As a palaeontologist, he is also an authority on the systematics of centipedes – and a morphologist whose work contributes to the growth and methods of analysis of molecular datasets for inferring evolutionary relationships.^[6][3][7]

Gregory Edgecombe FRS
Edgecombe in 2018
Alma mater	Acadia University University of Alberta[1] Columbia University[2]
Awards	Fenner Medal (2004)
Scientific career
Fields	Systematics[3] Arthropods[3] Evolution[3] Palaeontology[3] Chilopoda[3]
Institutions	University of Alberta Australian Museum Natural History Museum, London
Thesis	Systematic studies on the trilobite order Phacopida (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Niles Eldredge[2]
Website	www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/greg-edgecombe.html

Education

Edgecombe was educated at Columbia University where he received a PhD in 1991 for systematic studies on the trilobite order Phacopida supervised by Niles Eldredge at the American Museum of Natural History.^[2]

Career and research

After his PhD, Edgecombe was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta, and worked as a researcher at the Australian Museum in Sydney for 14 years.^[6] In 2007, he took up the position of research leader at the Natural History Museum, London, where since 2013 he has been a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) merit researcher.^[6] With Gonzalo Giribet, he co-authored a textbook, The Invertebrate Tree of Life, published by Princeton University Press in March 2020.

Awards and honours

Edgecombe was awarded the president's medal by the Palaeontological Association in 2011, and the Fenner Medal for distinguished research in biology by the Australian Academy of Science in 2004.^[6] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.^[6] In 2024, a new megacheiran arthropod, Lomankus edgecombei was named after Edgecombe.^[8]

References

1. Greg Edgecombe's ORCID 0000-0002-9591-8011
2. Edgecombe, Gregory Donald (1991). Systematic studies on the trilobite order Phacopida (PhD thesis). Columbia University. OCLC 933526770. ProQuest 303964340.
3. Gregory Edgecombe publications indexed by Google Scholar
4. "Dr Greg Edgecombe". nhm.ac.uk. Natural History Museum.
5. Gregory Edgecombe publications from Europe PubMed Central
6. Anon (2018). "Dr Gregory Edgecombe FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

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7. Dunn, Casey W.; Hejnol, Andreas; Matus, David Q.; Pang, Kevin; Browne, William E.; Smith, Stephen A.; Seaver, Elaine; Rouse, Greg W.; Obst, Matthias; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Sørensen, Martin V.; Haddock, Steven H. D.; Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas; Okusu, Akiko; Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg; Wheeler, Ward C.; Martindale, Mark Q.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2008). "Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life". Nature. 452 (7188): 745–749. Bibcode:2008Natur.452..745D. doi:10.1038/nature06614. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 18322464. S2CID 4397099.
8. Katie Hunt (29 October 2024). "Stunning fossil preserved in fool's gold reveals newly identified 450 million-year-old species". CNN.

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