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SUMMARY:The origin of higher taxa: reflections on the evolutionary mechani
 sms and ecological circumstances - Dr Tom Kemp (University of Oxford)
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CONTACT:Stephen Pates
DESCRIPTION:Short biography of the speaker:\n\nCambridge Ph.D in Vertebrat
 e Palaeontology 1968. Assistant Curator in the C.U. Zoology Museum 1968-72
 \; Curator of the Zoological Collections in the Oxford University Museum 1
 972-2009. Now Emeritus Research Fellow of St John's College\, Oxford.\n\nR
 esearch largely on nonmammalian mammals ("mammal-like reptiles") and the o
 rigin of mammals. Books "Mammal-like reptiles and the origin of mammals" (
 1982)\; "Fossils and Evolution" (1999)\; "The origin and evolution of mamm
 als" (2005). Currently writing "The origin of higher taxa: evolutionary me
 chanisms and ecological circumstances".
LOCATION:Harker Room 2\, Department of Earth Sciences
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