Author: Neil Gostling

I am an evolutionary developmental biologist and palaeotologist. I have worked on questions from the evolution of our nervous system, all the way to plant root development in soil. The history of life is my real passion. Whether it is the origin of animals, or how birds jump, and what that might tell us about the evolution of flight in small dinosaurs, the work started by Charles Darwin means we can really hope to answer these questions, as we go into the 21st Century.......