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Don't Fear the Spider

Rodrigo Monjaraz Ruedas Breaks Down Why Spiders are Amazing

Don't Fear the Spider

Rodrigo Monjaraz Ruedas, NHM's Assistant Curator of Entomology, studies evolutionary biology and systematics of short-range endemic arthropods. His research combines fieldwork, museum collection data, morphology and phylogenomics to address specific questions about speciation, species delineation, morphological evolution, and biodiversity. Much of his research also emphasizes conservation biology, taxonomy and bioinformatics!