Macphee, Ross D(ouglas) E(arle)

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MACPHEE, Ross D(ouglas) E(arle)

MACPHEE, Ross D(ouglas) E(arle). Scottish, b. 1949. Genres: Zoology. Career: University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, 1977-78; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, 1978-79; Duke University, Durham, NC, assistant professor, 1979-85, associate professor of anatomy, 1985-88; American Museum of Natural History, NYC, curator in mammalogy, 1988-, head of department, 1993-. Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York, Globus Lecturer, 1989; State University of New York at Stony Brook, adjunct associate professor, 1989-; Graduate Center of the City University of New York, adjunct professor, 1990-; University of Puerto Rico, member of chancellor's advisory council for Caribbean Primate Research Center, 1990-. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, research associate in vertebrate paleontology, 1994-. Canadian Review of Physical Anthropology, managing editor, 1978-79. Conducted laboratory research at Max-Planck-Institut fuer Hirnforschung, 1973-74; conducted field work in Jamaica, Trinidad, Madagascar, Anguilla, Hispaniola, Cuba, Germany, Puerto Rico, Indonesia, China, and Mallorca; consultant to Madagascar's Ministry of Scientific Research. Publications: Auditory Regions of Primates and Eutherian Insectivores (monograph), 1981; (ed. and contrib) Primates and Their Relatives in Phylogenetic Perspective, 1993. Editor of the series "Advances in Primatology," Plenum, 1990-, and "Advances in Vertebrate Paleobiology," 1995-. Contributor to books. Contributor to scientific journals and popular magazines. Address: Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY 10024, U.S.A.

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