Rafe Marion Brown
zoologist
Rafe Marion Brown (born October 1, 1968) is an American herpetologist and conservationist. His research focuses on the herpetofauna of the Philippines, Southeast Asia, and the western Pacific.
Biography
Brown is the son of Walter and Lucia Brown (née Hopple). After graduating from the Putney School in Putney, Vermont, he enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. In 1991 he transferred to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in May 1994 and a Master of Science in May 1997. In September 1997, Brown entered the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed his Ph.D. in May 2004 under the supervision of David C. Cannatella. His dissertation, titled Evolution of Ecomorphological Variation and Acoustic Diversity in Mate-Recognition Signals of Southeast Asian Forest Frogs (subfamily Platymantinae), examined the diversification of mate-recognition signals among forest frogs of Southeast Asia. Since January 2005, he has served as curator-in-charge at the Biodiversity Institute of the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
Brown uses molecular markers combined with statistical methods to test hypotheses regarding species boundaries, distribution, dispersal, isolation, and diversity. His empirical research emphasizes patterns of lineage diversification and species-level responses to biogeographic processes across island archipelagos.
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