Milly Mead

My research focuses on both living and extinct vertebrates, including birds, reptiles and dinosaurs. I use a variety of statistical techniques to investigate broad patterns of evolution through deep time. Previously, my work has centred around forelimb evolution in a bizarre group of theropod dinosaurs, called oviraptorosaurs. Now, I'm seeking to understand patterns of brain evolution across tetrapods. My current project investigates how the evolution of metabolism and endothermy could be linked to the evolution of the brain and, ultimately, enhanced cognition in modern birds and mammals.