Rafael S. Marcondes
EEB Faculty Fellow (Huxley fellow), Department of Biosciences, Rice University

Welcome! Thank you for visiting my professional website. I'm an ornithologist and evolutionary biologist. My overarching goal as a researcher is to use the wondrous phenotypic diversity of the world's birds to  generate insights about general evolutionary processes. I also have strong interests in outreach, teaching and mentorship.
I can be contacted at raf.marcondes[at]gmail.com or at rmarco3[at]rice.edu. I can also be found on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/rafamarcondes.bsky.social

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"Eu quase que nada não sei. Mas desconfio de muita coisa"
"I almost don't know nothing. But I suspect many things"
João Guimarães Rosa, 1956
(Portuguese original and free English translation by me)


"One cannot see the way up a mountain, it can only be climbed by trial and error. The intellectual mountaineer makes false starts, gets stuck, gets into blind alleys and cul-de-sacs, finds himself in untenable positions, has to backtrack, has to descend and to start again. Slowly and painfully with innumerable errors and corrections, he makes his zigzag way up the mountain. It is only when he reaches the summit, or the height he desires that he will see that there was a royal-road to it. In publications he takes his readers along this royal road, but this bears no resemblance to the crooked tortuous process by which he constructed a path for himself."
Hermann von Helmholtz, 1938



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This webpage was last updated on 22 July 2024

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