Mark Webster, University of Chicago
Associate Professor
Chicago, Illinois
mwebster@geosci.uchicago.edu
Office:
(773) 702-4071
Bio/Research
My research straddles the fields of evolutionary developmental biology, systematics/phylogenetics, and biostratigraphy, and has three major goals:
1. To determine whether and how development constrains morphological diversification, and on what timescale such developmental constraints op...
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1. To determine whether and how development constrains morphological diversification, and on what timescale such developmental constraints op...
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Bio/Research
My research straddles the fields of evolutionary developmental biology, systematics/phylogenetics, and biostratigraphy, and has three major goals:
1. To determine whether and how development constrains morphological diversification, and on what timescale such developmental constraints operate.
2. To improve understanding of the initial radiation of trilobites during the Cambrian, and thus to provide insight into the nature of major evolutionary radiations.
3. To refine the resolution at which biotic and environmental change can be studied within the Cambrian System, a time of exceptional evolutionary significance.
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1. To determine whether and how development constrains morphological diversification, and on what timescale such developmental constraints operate.
2. To improve understanding of the initial radiation of trilobites during the Cambrian, and thus to provide insight into the nature of major evolutionary radiations.
3. To refine the resolution at which biotic and environmental change can be studied within the Cambrian System, a time of exceptional evolutionary significance.
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