{"id":81,"count":1,"description":"<div style=\"float: right;\"><img style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"Dr. Martin R Smith\" src=\"http:\/\/34.32.27.218\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Martin_smith2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\r\nMartin is a palaeontologist interested in the origins of the modern animal groups and\r\nthe remarkably-preserved early fossils that allow us to reconstruct their evolutionary history. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (BA, MSc) and studied for his PhD in Toronto, where he first worked on the Burgess Shale fossils that now form a central part of his research. Martin returned to Cambridge to become a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College before moving to Durham University in 2015, where he is now an assistant professor in Palaeontology.","link":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/?tag=martin_smith","name":"Martin R. Smith","slug":"martin_smith","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&tags=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}