Robert Brocklehurst
@docrobbrock.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at UML | Vertebrate evolution | Form and function | he/ him
My coauthor, Mags Mercado, is a very talented artist (and scientist!) 🎨🔬
June 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
My coauthor, Mags Mercado, is a very talented artist (and scientist!) 🎨🔬
This work would not be possible without a long list of collaborators, collection staff and colleagues. Extremely grateful to my coauthors (including a former student who made vital contributions).
You can see a lovely write-up of the paper here news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
You can see a lovely write-up of the paper here news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Head over heels: How mammals stood up and took over the world
For more than a century, scientists have puzzled over a fundamental mystery in our evolutionary history: how did mammals go from sprawling like lizards to striding like cats and dogs?…
news.harvard.edu
June 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This work would not be possible without a long list of collaborators, collection staff and colleagues. Extremely grateful to my coauthors (including a former student who made vital contributions).
You can see a lovely write-up of the paper here news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
You can see a lovely write-up of the paper here news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Contrary to older ideas that posture evolved in a stepwise manner, we found that the ancestors of mammals navigated a complex evolutionary adaptive landscape, evolving, radiating and diversifying in their own unique ways.
June 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Contrary to older ideas that posture evolved in a stepwise manner, we found that the ancestors of mammals navigated a complex evolutionary adaptive landscape, evolving, radiating and diversifying in their own unique ways.
We compiled a huge dataset of limb bones from living and extinct animals (>200 species) and analysed what they look like, how they functioned and how this all changed through 300 million years of evolutionary time.
June 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
We compiled a huge dataset of limb bones from living and extinct animals (>200 species) and analysed what they look like, how they functioned and how this all changed through 300 million years of evolutionary time.