- Philip Donoghue
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name = Philip Donoghue
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birth_date =April 5 1971
birth_place =Morriston ,Wales flagicon|Wales
death_date =
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residence =England flagicon|England
nationality = British flagicon|UK
field =Palaeontology
work_institution =University of Bristol
alma_mater =University of Leicester
doctoral_advisor =Richard Aldridge andMark Purnell
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prizes =Bigsby Medal of theGeological Society
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footnotes =Philip Conrad Donoghue (born
April 5 ,1971 ,Morriston ) is a Britishpalaeontologist , Reader inGeology at theUniversity of Bristol .Donoghue's research primarily has focused on the evolutionary significance of primitive fossil vertebrates and fossilised embryos. He was awarded the
Bigsby Medal of theGeological Society of London in 2007.Selected publications
Donoghue, P. C. J., and M. A. Purnell. 2005. Genome duplication, extinction and vertebrate evolution. "Trends in Ecology & Evolution" 20:312-319.
Donoghue, P. C. J., S. Bengtson, X. P. Dong, N. J. Gostling, T. Huldtgren, J. A. Cunningham, C. Yin, Z. Yue, F. Peng, and M. Stampanoni. 2006. Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos. "Nature" 442:680-683.
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