Javier Luque

Javier Luque is a Research Associate/Curator of non-insect arthropods at Cambridge University, working in Tropical Palaeobiology and the evolution of crustaceans. Their current projects include: 'Why do things evolve into crabs', 'The Crab Tree of Life', 'Exceptional preservation of marine invertebrates in tropical settings', 'Macroevolution of fossil decapod crustaceans', 'Evolution of compound eyes in crustaceans' and 'The fossil record of crabs, shrimp, and lobsters from tropical America'