Dr. David Bapst

Biography

David W. Bapst is an analytical paleobiologist at Texas A&M University, specializing in understanding evolutionary relationships through the fossil record. His research focuses on various groups, employing evolutionary processes to analyze the deep time evolutionary history of organisms. He has worked on a diverse range of subjects including planktonic graptolites, colonial zooplankton that underwent rapid diversification and extinction during the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian periods. His work leverages the detailed fossil record of graptolites to tackle evolutionary questions and contributes significantly to biostratigraphy and economic geology during the early Paleozoic era. Bapst is committed to utilizing quantitative paleobiology, stochastic models, and computational phylogenetics to explore macroevolutionary theories and the intricacies of geological records.

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