Norman MacLeod
Department of Palaeontology
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
U.K. 
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Norman MacLeod is the current Keeper of Palaeontology at The Natural History Museum, London and honorary Professor at University College London. Professor MacLeod is an internationally recognized expert in many areas of natural history. Prominent among these are (1) the mathematical analysis of shape and shape variation, (2) the causes of ancient extinction events, and (3) stratigraphical data analysis. Through his work in these areas, he has made prominent contributions to the punctuated-equilibrium controversy and the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction controversy and many widely-cited review articles, as well as being responsible for the development of several new morphometric data-analysis methods. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in the technical scientific literature as well being the editor of three three book-length collections of technical articles: The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction: biotic and environmental changes (W. W. Norton, 1996, with Gerta Keller), and Morphometrics, shape and phylogenetics (Taylor & Francis, 2002, with Peter Forey) and Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches, and Applications (2007, Taylor & Francis/CRC Press). he is also the creator and executive editor of the PaleoBase series of electronic palaeontological databases (Wiley/Blackwell 2001-present), the creator and manager of the PaleoNet palaeontological communications system and the co-founder and (to 2003) Executive Editor of the first fully electronic palaeontological journal, Palaeontologia Electronica. Professor MacLeod remains a frequent contributor to the technical scientific literature, book reviewer, symposium organiser, and keynote speaker. He has appeared many times on television and radio programmes, and newspaper interviews discussing scientific topics.