James A. Doyle
Ph.D., Harvard University (1971)
Professor of Botany (Section of Evolution and Ecology) and Geology

Paleobotany and palynology; plant evolution, biostratigraphy, and paleoecology; origin and evolution of angiosperms. Cretaceous palynology of the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain and equatorial Africa, with emphasis on angiosperm evolution and Cretaceous climates. Recent projects: phylogenetic analysis of living and fossil seed plants and living primitive angiosperms; implications of Cretaceous angiosperm pollen for phylogeny and biogeography; origin of the angiosperm flower; integration of fossil and molecular data on the age of plant groups.

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