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\"\"My research program is interested in understanding the anatomy, taxonomy, evolution, and ecology of late Palaeozoic early tetrapods (vertebrates with 4 limbs). I utilize both traditional palaeontological and field-based methods in combination with modern technologies, such as computed tomography scanning (CT), to study the anatomy of fossil reptiles and mammal ancestors.<\/p>\n

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Email:<\/strong> macdougallm@brandonu.ca
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Research Area<\/h2>

Vertebrate Palaeontology<\/p>

Research Keywords<\/h2>

Palaeontology | Evolution | Palaeozoic | Carboniferous | Permian | early tetrapod | early amniote | early reptile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My research program is interested in understanding the anatomy, taxonomy, evolution, and ecology of late Palaeozoic early tetrapods (vertebrates with 4 limbs). I utilize both traditional palaeontological and field-based methods in combination with modern technologies, such as computed tomography scanning (CT), to study the anatomy of fossil reptiles and mammal ancestors.      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/macdougallm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/macdougallm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/macdougallm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/macdougallm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/macdougallm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/macdougallm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/macdougallm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/macdougallm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}