Ross DE MacPhee

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Ross Douglas Earle MacPhee (born January 17, 1949 in Edinburgh , Scotland ) is an American mammaloge of Scottish origin. His main research interests are primates, small mammals and paleomammalogy.

Life

MacPhee is the son of H. Douglas M. and Joan I. MacPhee, nee Tankard. His father was a doctor. In 1969 he received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada. In 1977 he was with the thesis Auditory regions of strepsirhine primates, shrews tree, shrews elephant, and lipotyphlous insectivores: an ontogenetic perspective on character analysis at the University of Alberta , Edmonton, Canada, for Ph.D. PhD. From 1977 to 1978 MacPhee was visiting professor of anthropology at the University of Winnipeg . From 1978 to 1979 he was visiting lecturer in anthropology at the University of Manitoba . During the same period he was editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Canadian Review of Physical Anthropology . From 1979 to 1985 he was visiting professor and from 1985 to 1989 associate professor of anatomy at Duke University . In 1988 MacPhee became curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. From 1993 to 1999 he was head of the mammalogical department. In 1989 he was a lecturer at the Richard Gilder Graduate School and at Bernard M. Baruch College of City University and an adjunct professor at the City University of New York . In 1991 he was a visiting professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. From 1994 to 2005 he was a research fellow in the Vertebrate Paleontology Department at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History . In spring 2004 he became a lecturer in ecology, evolution and environmental biology at Columbia University . From 2005 to 2011 he was Senior Scientist and Visiting Professor of Cell Biology at New York University Medical Center.

In 1998 MacPhee founded the Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms (CREO) together with Clare Flemming , Melanie Stiassny and Ian J. Harrison . This body developed a research program with which data on extinct species can be collected and analyzed more accurately.

MacPhee's main interests are paleo biogeography , mammalian extinction, and the cranial development of skull morphology. With regard to paleobiogeography, he deals with issues of mammalian and general vertebrate diversity in the West Indies, Madagascar and Antarctica from the late Mesozoic to the late Neogene . MacPhee is also studying recent mammalian extinctions, focusing on megafauna loss during the late Pleistocene in North America and northern Asia. The aim of his research and that of his colleagues is to clarify the causal patterns behind these losses. Here the population dynamics of fossil species is examined using ancient DNA methods.

MacPhree is a member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology , the American Association of Physical Anthropologists , the Society for Island Faunas , the American Society of Mammalogists , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Sociedad Espeleologica de Cuba .

Dedication names

In 2007, Steven M. Goodman , Natalie Vasey and David A. Burney named the subfossil Kleintenrek species Microgale macpheei in honor of Ross MacPhee.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ross DE MacPhee: The Shrew Tenrecs of Madagascar: Systematic Revision and Holocene Distribution of Microgale (Tenrecidae, Insectivora). American Museum Novitates 2889, 1987, pp. 1-45
  • Ross DE MacPhee, Michael J. Novacek and Gerhard Storch: Basicranial Morphology of Early Tertiary Erinaceomorphs and the Origin of Primates. American Museum Novitates 2921, 1988, pp. 1-42
  • Ross DE MacPhee: Primates and Their Relatives in Phylogenetic Perspective (Advances in Primatology) Springer, 1993. ISBN 978-0306444227
  • Ross DE MacPhee: Morphology, adaptations, and relationships of Plesiorycteropus, and a diagnosis of a new order of Eutherian mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 220, 1994, pp. 1-214
  • Ross DE MacPhee and Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent: Origin of the Greater Antillean Land Mammal Fauna, 1: New Tertiary Fossils from Cuba and Puerto Rico. American Museum Novitates 3141, 1995, pp. 1-31
  • Ross DE MacPhee: Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1999, ISBN 0306460920 .
  • Ross DE MacPhee, Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent and Eugene S. Gaffney: Domo de Zaza, an Early Miocene Vertebrate Locality in South-Central Cuba, with Notes on the Tectonic Evolution of Puerto Rico and the Mona Passage. American Museum Novitates 3394, 2003, pp. 1-42
  • Ross DE MacPhee, Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent and Osvaldo Jiménez Vázquez: Prehistoric Sloth Extinctions in Cuba: Implications of a New “Last” Appearance Date. Caribbean Journal of Science 43 (1), 2007, pp. 94-98
  • Ross DE MacPhee: Race to The End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole Sterling Innovation, 2010. ISBN 978-1402770296
  • Ross DE MacPhee, Peter Schouten: End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals WW Norton & Co, 2018. ISBN 978-0393249293

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SURNAME MacPhee, Ross DE
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacPhee, Ross Douglas Earle (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mammal loge
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh , Scotland