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Ross MacPhee
Curator, Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History
Ross MacPhee is the former chairman of the Department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History, where he has been curator since 1988. Known for his paleomammalogical research on island extinctions, he has focused his most recent work on how extinctions occur, particularly those in which humans are thought to have been implicated during the past 100,000 years. Dr. MacPhee has also collaborated with geneticists and molecular biologists to develop the new tool of “ancient DNA” for studying the population structure and ultimate collapse of Pleistocene mammals. Dr. MacPhee received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 1977 and was previously associate professor of anatomy at Duke University Medical Center.