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Details for Dr Emily Rayfield
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| Name | Dr Emily Rayfield | ||||||
| Job title | Reader in Palaeobiology |
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| Department | School of Earth Sciences University of Bristol |
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| Personal web page | http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~glejr/ | ||||||
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| Qualifications | BA(Oxon), PhD(Cantab) | ||||||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Palaeontological Association Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology The Geological Society |
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| Keywords | dinosaurs fossils biomechanics |
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| Areas of expertise | I research how living and fossil animal skeletons function, examine why skeletons are shaped in a particular way, and track these patterns through evolutionary time, noting how shape and function relate to patterns of species diversity and environmental factors. I am particularly interested in the evolution of the skull and its relation to feeding behaviour in dinosaurs, birds, crocodiles and more recently, mammals. |
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| Media experience | Interviews for TV, radio and print articles (newspaper, magazine, online). Consultancy for TV documentaries. |
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