Email:

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Phone:

212-769-5480

Fax:

212-769-5239

Curriculum Vitae (short version)

Education

• University of Alberta, , Ph.D., 1977
• University of British Columbia, B.A., 1969

Research Interests

Dr. MacPhee studies the historical biogeography of the West Indies, using a combined tectonic/paleontological approach. This program of research has been in operation for more than 20 years and has involved work on all major and many of the smaller islands in the West Indies. His research has focused on systematic and functional anatomical investigations of the groups concerned. Dr. MacPhee also studies recent mammalian extinctions (last 40,000 years). Loss of species during geologically recent times is a worldwide phenomenon that has been blamed either on direct impacts involving people, or less direct impacts caused by environmental change. His research aims to clarify the causal patterns behind these losses, most recently by studying population dynamics of fossil species using ancient DNA methods.

• Publications

  (Selected)

  Bininda-Emonds O, Beck R, MacPhee RDE (2012) Rocking clocks and clocking rocks: a critical look at divergence time estimation in mammals. In Asher R, Mueller J (eds) From clone to bone: the synergy of morphological and molecular tools in palaeobiology: 83-165 (Cambridge University Press)

  Enk J, Debruyne R, Devault, A, King CE, Terangen TR, O’Rourke D, Salzburg S, Fisher D, MacPhee RDE, Poinar H (2011) Complete Columbian mammoth mitogenome suggests interbreeding with woolly mammoths. Genome Biology 12:R51 

  MacPhee RDE (2011) Basicranial morphology and relationships of Antillean Heptaxodontidae (Rodentia, Ctenohystrica, Caviomorpha).Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 363: 1-70

  Arnold LJ, Roberts RG, MacPhee RDE, Haile JS, Brock F, Möller P, Froese DG, Tikhonov AN, Chivas AR, Gilbert T, Willerslev E (2010) Paper II—Dirt, dates and DNA: OSL and radiocarbon chronologies of perennially-frozen sediments in Siberia, and their implications for sedimentary ancient DNA studies. Boreas 40: 417-445

  Szpak P, Gröcke DR, Debruyne R, MacPhee RDE, Guthrie RD, Froese D, Zazula GD, Patterson WP, Poinar HN (2010) Regional differences in bone collagen ∂13C and ∂15N of Pleistocene mammoths: Implications for paleoecology of the mammoth steppe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 286: 88-96

  MacPhee RDE, Reguero MA (2010) Reinterpretation of a Middle Eocene record of Tardigrada (Pilosa, Xenarthra, Mammalia) from La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, West Antarctica. American Museum Novitates 3689: 1-21

  Haile J, Froese D, MacPhee RDE, Roberts RG, Arnold LJ, Reyes A, Rasmussen M, Nielsen R, Brook BW, Robinson S, Demuro M, Gilbert MTP, Munch K, Austin J, Cooper A, Barnes I, Möller P, Willerslev E (2009) Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA106: 22353-22357

  MacPhee RDE (2008) Insulae infortunatae: establishing the chronology of Late Quaternary mammal extinctions in the West Indies.InG Haynes (ed) American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene: 169-193 (Springer: Dordrecht NL)

  Wyatt KB, Campos P, Gilbert MTP, Hynes WH, DeSalle R, Daszak P, Ball S, MacPhee RDE, Greenwood AD (2008) Historical mammal extinction due to introduced infectious disease. PLoS One 3(11): e3602

  Debruyne R, Chu G, King C, Bos K, Kuch M, Schwarz C, Szpak P, Gröcke DR, Matheus P, Zazula G, Guthrie D, Froese D, Buigues B, de Marliave C, Flemming C, Poinar D, Fisher D, Southon J, Tikhonov AN, MacPhee RDE,Poinar HN (2008) Out of America:Ancient DNA evidence for a New World origin of Late Quaternary woolly mammoths. Current Biology 18: 1-7 

• Teaching Experience

  Faculty Appointments

  • Visiting Professor of Cell Biology, NYU Medical Center, 2005-present
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, 2004
  • Adjunct Professor, Doctoral Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY, 1991-present
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook, 1989-present
  • Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, Duke University, 1985-1988
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Duke University, 1979-1985
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, 1978-1979
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg, 1977-1978

  Courses Taught

  • Human Gross Anatomy, Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine, Summer 2005, Fall 2005

  Graduate Advisees

  Graduate Committees

  • Patricia Sutherland, University of Alberta
  • Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen