Julie Hawkins
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Professor of Plant Systemics and Evolution
- Professor of Plant Systemics and Evolution
- Deputy Head of School
- Head of Division, Ecology and Evolution
Areas of interest
- Plant taxonomy and evolution
- Ethnobotany and evolutionary ethnobotany
- Wildlife trade and conservation.
Selected publications
Evolutionary ethnobotany
2020 Comparative analysis of four medicinal floras: phylogenetic methods to identify cross cultural patterns. Plants People Planet 2: 614
2018 Comparative phylogenetic methods and the cultural evolution of medicinal plant use. Nature Plants 4: 754
2014 The evolution of traditional knowledge: environment shapes medicinal plant use in Nepal. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 281: 20132768.
2010 Phylogenies reveal predictive power of traditional medicine in bioprospecting. PNAS 39: 15835
Plant taxonomy and evolution
2022 Reconstructing an historical pollination syndrome: keel flowers. BMC Evolutionary Biology 22: 12017
2017 A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny. Taxon 66: 44
Authentication and wildlife trade
2019 Phylogenomic approaches to DNA barcoding of herbal medicines: developing clade-specific diagnostic characters for Berberis. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 10: 586