Phil Donoghue

1,064 posts

Phil Donoghue

@glpcjd

Fondler of fossils, University of Bristol. Interested in causes and consequences of major evolutionary transitions. Some views shared by others, surely?

donoghue.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

Joined June 2014

Phil Donoghue
@glpcjd
May 28, 2025
Our latest, led by @sometimesferns of @MilnerCentre shows that the notorious mismatch between molecular and palaeontological estimates for the timing of origin of flowering plants is a consequence of the equivocal interpretation of their fossil record
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Uncertainty in the timing of diversification of flowering plants rests with equivocal interpretat...
Abstract. The timing of the origin of crown-angiosperms exemplifies the impact of competing approaches to establishing evolutionary timescales. Fossils of
Phil Donoghue
@glpcjd
Apr 4, 2025
Fun @BristolPalaeo and friends collab which shows that aerobic bacteria arose in the Archaean, long before the GOE - after which aerobes proliferated through HGT. A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation | Science
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A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation
Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the...
Phil Donoghue
@glpcjd
Mar 5, 2025
March 11 deadline looming for 44 month PostDoc @BristolPalaeo researching timing, sequence and phenotypic consequences of rediploidisation following whole genome duplication: comparative genomics, molecular clock and phenotypic disparity methods, with myself and @sometimesferns
Phil Donoghue
@glpcjd
Nov 15, 2024
Our latest, by Emily Carlisle @Some__Sunshine Zongjun Yin @YinZjyin Davide Pisani and myself @BristolPalaeo: 'Ediacaran origin and Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa'
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Ediacaran origin and Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa
Molecular clock analyses based on revised fossil interpretations and rock dating estimate an Ediacaran origin of animals.
Phil Donoghue
@glpcjd
Nov 15, 2024
This week Prof Susie Maidment @Tweetisaurus from @NHM_London gave the palaeo seminar @BristolPalaeo on Middle Jurassic armoured dinosaurs from Morroco