S09:19 A (first) Conversation with Ross MacPhee

Ross MacPhee is a paleomammalogist on the curatorial staff of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where he has worked since 1988. He has conducted more than 50 expeditions in many parts of the world, researching the evolution and extinction of Ice Age mammals.

In addition to numerous scientific papers in Science, Nature, PNAS and other professional journals, Ross is the author of End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals (WW Norton, 2018), Race to The End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole (Sterling, 2010) and the editor of Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences (Kluwer/Plenum, 1999). 

Here is where you can buy Ross' book, End of the Megafauna:  https://tinyurl.com/uhldnca

This episode of "A Conversation with..." was produced by Renée Yaworsky and Dennis Tardan.