Academic Career
Jones was rejected from all the Welsh universities, so he applied to the University of Edinburgh for an undergraduate degree, which had a closing date seven days later and he was accepted onto a zoology undergraduate course. He stayed on in Edinburgh to do research for a Doctor of Philosophy degree on the ecological genetics of Cepaea, a snail whose shell is of interest to evolutionary biologists. He developed an interest in snails from Bryan Clarke, one of his teachers at university, who is now a professor at the University of Nottingham. After his PhD Jones also completed post-doctoral research into the genetics of drosophila at the University of Chicago to widen his scope. Much of Jones' research has been concerned with snails and the light their anatomy can shed on biodiversity and genetics.
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