Thursday 10 March 2016

Lecturers on 1st IMERP-XIV EJIP: Israel M. Sánchez

Workshop "Tertiary ecosystems: evolution and palaeoenvironments" lecturers.

Israel M. Sánchez (collaborator at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Madrid, Spain) is one of the world authorities in ruminant phylogenetics and evolution, with special regard in musk-deer (Moschidae), mouse-deer and chevrotains (Tragulidae), and giraffomorphs. He has produced an extensive amount of work on this subject. His PhD was focused on the phylogeny and systematics of the Moschidae with special reference to the Miocene forms, the deep-time evolution of the group, and the origins of the clade Bovoidea. This work and the subsequent published papers changed moschids from being a very poorly understood group to becoming one of the best-known of the pecoran ruminants, and established a phylogenetic framework for future works. His following papers have been always pointed to resolve the phylogeny and evolution of ruminants, with special focus in poorly-known groups such as tragulids and giraffes and their fossil relatives. His field experience includes his participation at the impressive upper Miocene sites of Cerro de los Batallones (Madrid, Spain) among others, and also involves his collaboration as an active member of the French-Spanish ‘Namibia Paleontological Expedition’. Besides his technical scientific work, Israel M. Sánchez has dedicated a great deal of his time to the scientific divulgation, both through his career as a paleo-artist and by means of conferences, courses and scientific advising for several Spanish museum exhibitions.

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