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Peter Skelton chairs, amongst other courses, The Open University's Evolution course.

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OU Lecture 2009: Post lecture discussion Featuring: video, OU image library

By Professor Jim Moore (The Open University), Professor Jonathan Silvertown (The Open University), Dr Peter Skelton (The Open University), Professor Richard Dawkins (Guest), Professor Steve Jones (Guest)

30 April 2009

Follow the discussion that took place after The OU Lecture 2009: Darwin's Five Bridges by Professor Richard Dawkins  Read more : OU Lecture 2009: Post lecture discussion

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Fossil evidence for evolutionOU image library

By Dr Peter Skelton (The Open University)

14 January 2009

Although Darwin was originally disappointed by the evidence provided by the fossil record, subsequent work has more than borne out his theories, explains Peter Skelton.  Read more : Fossil evidence for evolution

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Worthington, Jenny; Silvertown, Jonathan; Cook, Laurence; Cameron, Robert; Dodd, Mike; Greenwood, Richard; McConway, Kevin and Skelton, Peter (2011). Evolution MegaLab: a case study in citizen science methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Early View).

Silvertown, Jonathan; Cook, Laurence; Cameron, Robert; Dodd, Michael; McConway, Kevin; Worthington, Jennifer; Skelton, Peter; Anton, Christian; Bossdorf, Oliver; Baur, Bruno; Schilthuizen, Menno; Fontaine, Benoît; Sattmann, Helmut; Bertorelle, Giorgio; Correira, Maria; Oliveira, Cristina; Pokryszko, Beata; Ozgo, Malgorzata; Stalažs, Arturs; Gill, Eoin; Rammul, Üllar; Sólymos, Péter; Féher, Soltan and Juan, Xavier (2011). Citizen science reveals unexpected continental-scale
evolutionary change in a model organism. PLoS ONE, 6(4), e18927.

Skelton, P.W. (2004). Oedomyophorus shaybahensis, a new genus and species of ?caprinid rudist from the Lower Aptian Shu'aiba of eastern Saudi Arabia. In: 5th International Congress on Rudists, 1999, Erlangen, Germany.

Pantoja-Alor, J.; Skelton, P.W. and Masse, J.-P. (2004). Barremian rudists of the San Lucas Formation around San Lucas, Michoacan, SW Mexico. In: 5th International Congress on Rudists, 1999, Erlangen, Germany.

Gourrat, C.; Masse, J.-P. and Skelton, P.W. (2003). Hypelasma salevensis (FAVRE, 1913) from the Upper Kimmeridgian of the French Jura, and the origin of the rudist family Requieniidae. Geologia Croatica, 56(2), pp. 139–148.

Skelton, P.W. (2003). Rudist evolution and extinction - a North African perspective. In: Gili, Eulàlia; Negra, Mohamed El Hédi and Skelton, Peter W. eds. North African Cretaceous Carbonate Platform Systems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Tunis, Tunisia from 13 to 18 May 2002. NATO Science Series IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences, 28. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 215–227.

Skelton, P.W.; Gili, E.; Vicens, E.; Obrador, A. and López, G. (2003). Revised lithostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) carbonate platform succession on the northern flank of Sant Corneli, southern Central Pyrenees. Journal of Iberian Geology, 29 pp. 73–87.

Moro, Alan; Skelton, Peter W. and Ćosović, Vlasta (2002). Palaeoenvironmental setting of rudists in the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian-Maastrichtian) Adriatic Carbonate Platform (Croatia), based on sequence stratigraphy. Cretaceous Research, 23(4), pp. 489–508.

Skelton, P.W. (2002). Geology. In: Pagel, Mark ed. Encyclopedia of Evolution. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 437–443.

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Peter Skelton chairs, amongst other courses, The Open University's Evolution course.
He's a contributor to 99% Ape - How evolution adds up and to the Evolution MegaLab. Peter's own research focuses on the evolution of an extinct group of bivalves ("clams"). He's published numerous papers on evolutionary palaeontology as well as editing a number of books, including The Cretaceous World.

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