Arce H. Mariangeles
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Arce H. Mariangeles has made pioneering contributions at the intersection of biodiversity science and crowdsourcing, addressing one of the grand challenges in evolutionary biology: the massive scale of phenotypic data needed to reconstruct the Tree of Life. Her landmark 2017 study, cited 10 times, demonstrated that non-expert crowds can replicate the performance of trained scientific experts in scoring phylogenetic matrices of phenotypes—from anatomy to physiology—across living and fossil species. This work fundamentally reframed how the scientific community approaches the bottleneck of biodiversity data collection, showing that the public can be a powerful, reliable partner in tackling problems that far outstrip expert capacity alone. Her research bridges citizen science, phylogenetics, and computational biology, offering scalable solutions for documenting millions of species. Mariangeles’s contributions have opened new pathways for democratizing scientific discovery, proving that rigorous phylogenetic research need not be limited by the number of trained specialists. Her work continues to inspire new models of collaborative, large-scale biodiversity science.
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