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Jean-Bernard Caron is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. He specializes in the study of complex marine communities from the Early Cambrian period. His research focuses on the Cambrian explosion, which marks the rapid diversification of major animal groups that occurred roughly 540 million years ago. This critical event is preserved in a series of exceptional fossil deposits, particularly found in Canada and China, including the renowned Burgess Shale in British Columbia, a UNESCO World Heritage site. His work is currently oriented towards several main complementary areas: elucidating the ecological affinities of specific fossil taxa to shed light on the origin and relationship of major animal body plans, acquiring functional novelties related to the Cambrian explosion, and understanding the interaction between environmental signals and community composition of Cambrian biota. He explores community patterns across varying temporal and spatial scales, especially in paleogeographic and paleoecologic settings.
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