Dr James Holmes

Lecturer in Zoology - School of Environmental and Rural Science

James Holmes

Biography

Jimmy is a palaeobiologist primarily interested in patterns of morphological evolution across the history of life. He uses methods such as geometric morphometrics to explore morphological diversity in fossil animals at different scales; from studies of growth and development in individual species, to macroevolutionary questions about the rise and fall of morphological disparity on geological timescales. Jimmy mainly uses trilobites as a model group in his research, but has also worked on other groups ranging from the enigmatic Ediacara biota (the first macroscopic life on Earth) to Cretaceous reptiles.