Philip Conrad Donoghue is a British

United Kingdom

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 palaeontologist, Reader

Reader (academic rank)

The title of Reader in the United Kingdom and some universities in the Commonwealth nations like Australia and New Zealand denotes an appointment for a senior academic with a distinguished international reputation in research or scholarship...

 in Geology

Geology

Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...

 at the University of Bristol

University of Bristol

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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.