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Funding Highlights 2013-2022
Breaking boundaries and driving inclusivity.
Our commitment to creating opportunities and enabling access through open collaboration and inclusive research programmes knows no bounds.
Funding Opportunities
Fuelling discovery for the next generation of researchers.
Our grants and programmes aim to provide opportunities that drive inclusivity and turn shared wisdom into real-world solutions for all.
Our research projects are taking Palaeoscience into the future. Will you help us go further?
GENUS Palaeoscientists are working on a number of exciting projects across a diverse range of disciplines.

Evolutionary Processes
This theme includes studying the timing of evolutionary events, characterising the global geographic distribution of fossil taxa, investigating the nature of functional morphology, and exploring critical innovations in morphological evolution.

Cultural & Behavioural Evolution
This theme includes studying the timing of evolutionary events, characterising the global geographic distribution of fossil taxa, investigating the nature of functional morphology, and exploring critical innovations in morphological evolution.

Palaeo-environments and Palaeoclimates
This theme includes studying the timing of evolutionary events, characterising the global geographic distribution of fossil taxa, investigating the nature of functional morphology, and exploring critical innovations in morphological evolution.
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