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Ever since I was child I have always been fascinated by how life came to be and how organisms adapt to their environment, marveled by how you can find an organism in every single type of habitat available on Earth. My organism-driven evolutionary point of view led me to focus on phenotypic variation as the driver of ‘adaptation’, given that the phenotype is the first thing that adjusts in response to environmental change, only posteriorly becoming genetically assimilated if providing some transgenerational benefit. For this reason the core of my work has concerned adaptive radiations and the phenotypic discrimination between sister species. To this avail I have specialized in Geometric Morphometrics, or the multivariate analysis of shape. This toolset allows quantifying even the most discrete morphological differences, discriminating between variation due to size, ontogeny, modularity/integration, phylogenetic relationships, or a combination of these. However, phenotypic variation alone does not imply an adaptive response, and this fact has led me to extend my research into biomechanics and comparative functional morphology. Not only do I find adaptation interesting in itself as an explanation to the evolution of life, but I also believe that if we are able to understand how different organisms have evolved phenotypically (i.e. anatomy, behavior, and physiology) to the different functional demands imposed by the environment, we could also apply this knowledge to improve many aspects of our society (e.g. engineering, medical applications, robotics, etc.) and its future interactions with the environment (e.g. resource management, sustainable development, etc.).
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Jorge Ari Noriega, Charles Zapata-Prisco,Héctor García, Elkin Hernández,José Hernández,Ricardo Martínez,Javier H. Santos-Santos,José D. Pablo-Cea,Joaquín Calatayud
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