It was a big shock and extremely sad news to hear that Marco is not
with us anymore.
For those that witnessed the enthusiastic beginning of the "GM
revolution", Marco was always the reference-guy for many of us that
were on the most zoological side of the crowd. Although definitely a
tool-user, Marco was among the advanced and smart users, much more
confident on math and stats than the rest of us, and also truly
proficient on SAS, a great deal of this learned directly from Les
Marcus. That is why he often played a role as the connecting liaison
between developers and clients at the various morphometrics symposia
and workshops during the 90'. If you didn´t get something during the
lecture, you still had the chance of learning it after-hours from
Marco, in plain words and using friendly examples... If he admitted
that he didn´t understand something very well, then forget about it,
there´ll be little chances that you´ll get it... but hey, knowing
that Marco was also lost in that something, would make you feel less
frustrated about it.
Marco managed to be the first one (together with Anna Loy, most of
the times) to put into practice and publish papers using the latest
morphometric techniques applied to the kind of evolutionary problems
of mammals that we all had in mind. In that way he was a pioneer,
clearing the path and serving as an inspiration for many
mammalogists. His papers were a model to follow because he showed us
how to put into practice methods that seemed so complicated and
unreachable for many of us that we would have never dared to use, had
it not been for his papers.
And above all, Marco will always be remembered as the happy man, the
happy man who was always smiling and willing to share his
discoveries, to show everyone else around him, the exciting and
friendly side of morphometrics.
We´ll miss a generous friend and a most stimulating colleague.
Santiago Reig
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Santiago Reig
Gregorio Maranon Hospital, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Medical Imaging Lab
Dr. Esquerdo 46, 28007 Madrid, SPAIN
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