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119:, which he was told was one of the cheapest countries in the Americas to live in. He collected a number of mammal specimens and learned to speak Spanish, supporting himself in part by trading in horses. He returned in 1937 and again enrolled at Ann Arbor, graduating in 1938. Subsequently, he became a graduate student there and got his
238:. He was an independent researcher, writing most of his contributions alone; only three he co-authored with other scientists. He participated in some fiery scientific debates, with views that according to Patterson's biographical note "brand him as something other than conciliatory or diplomatic". In 1968, he published his theory of
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smaller-scale papers on cebids and assembled notes to continue his series on living New World monkeys, but eventually financial support ceased and
Hershkovitz was relieved to be able to spend the last decade of his life studying the mammals that most "intrigued and animated" him—rodents and marsupials.
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and later
Cebidae. In 1977, he published a review of callitrichids that according to Ronald H. Pine was "the most heroically monumental revisionary monograph ever devoted to a Neotropical group"; it was to be the first volume of a comprehensive treatment of living New World monkeys. He continued with
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In 1947, Hershkovitz was offered a position as
Assistant Curator of Mammals at the FMNH and accepted, although it meant that he was unable to complete his doctoral studies. He immediately went back to the field and stayed in Colombia until his curatorial duties called him back to Chicago in 1952. His
192:, an honor that had been given to only three previous Field Museum scientists. It included papers on some of the fields Hershkovitz had worked in, a biography and bibliography of him by Bruce Patterson, and a review, written by Hershkovitz himself, of the historical development of mammalogy in the
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Hershkovitz may have been most well known for his studies of primates, to the extent that many thought him a primatologist, but he was quick to point out that, as
Patterson phrases it, "nothing could be further from the truth". He had published on primates earlier, but did not give them special
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rodents of South
America. However, his contributions at the time have been cited as examples of "vague notions of clade recognition", "phylogenetic transcendentalism" unsubstantiated by data, and " of a complex reality". He was engaged in discussions on the significance of penis morphology in
160:, enjoyed a less positive relation with Hershkovitz, and the latter detached himself from the museum's day-to-day affairs. Ultimately, in 1962, Hershkovitz was replaced as Curator of Mammals by Joseph Moore and took the unprecedented title of Research Curator. He worked in the field in
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in Europe. In 1945, he married Anne Marie
Pierrette Dode, whom he had met in France, and the same year he returned to America to continue his Bacon Scholarship studies in Washington, D.C., where his first child of three—Francine, Michael, and Mark—was born in 1946.
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remains an invaluable resource for any student of cetaceans who needs to know the meaning of some obscure old name and has been called "a taxonomic
Rosetta Stone". Although Hershkovitz was not a marine mammalogist, a brief obituary on him appeared in
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sigmodontines and on their origin. Over eighty years old, he resumed studies of rodents in Brazil and discovered many additional new species. Shortly after his death, head of the FMNH's mammal division
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Chicago on 15 February 1997, at the age of 87; he continued to work on his mammalogical research until two weeks before his death. He was survived by two sons, a son-in-law, and two grandchildren.
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to parents Aba and Bertha (Halpern) Hershkovitz. He was the second child and only son among four siblings. He reported that his father died when he was nine years old. After graduating from
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Musser GG, Carleton MD, Brothers EM, Gardner AL (1998). "Systematic studies of oryzomyine rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontinae): diagnoses and distributions of species formerly assigned to
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Weksler M. (2006). "Phylogenetic relationships of oryzomyine rodents (Muroidea: Sigmodontinae): separate and combined analyses of morphological and molecular data".
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One of
Hershkovitz's first papers was on rodents, describing two new Ecuadorean squirrels in 1938, and he continued to publish about the group, including reviews of
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said "The information he gathered was the basis for much of the conservation planning that's being done now in most of the major habitats in South
America."
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and actively took care of his curatorial duties (appointed Associate Curator in 1954 and full Curator in 1956). Schmidt retired in 1957 and his successor,
57:, particularly primates and rodents, and described almost 70 new species and subspecies of mammals. About a dozen species have been named after him.
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Hershkovitz retired in 1974, but continued his research unabated as Curator Emeritus, and in 1980–81 he worked in the field in Peru. In 1987, a
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cave salamanders. He wanted to also trap small mammals, which he found more interesting, but had no traps to do that. On a chance visit to the
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Martin RA, Goodwin HT, Farlow JO (2002). "Late Neogene (Late Hemphillian) rodents from the Pipe Creek sinkhole, Grant County, Indiana".
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degree in 1940. He then entered the doctoral program, but in 1941 he was awarded a Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship by the
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of which he had found representatives in Colombia. He had a good relationship with Chief Curator of the Department of Zoology
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Carleton MD, Musser GG (1989). "Systematic studies of oryzomyine rodents (Muridae, Sigmodontinae): a synopsis of
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Colombian collections remained at the center of his research interests afterward, as he entirely revised many
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worsened, Hershkovitz was no longer able to afford life in Michigan, and in 1933 he decided to move to
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in 1998. He treated many other mammals in his publications, including reviews of marsupials such as
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in Chicago and he continued to work there until his death. He published much on the mammals of the
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between 1944 and 1966. He played an important role in formalizing and defining the
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in 1977. In 1988, he was the Honorary President of the XIIth Congress of the
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Fooden J. (1997a). "Death Notice: Philip Hershkovitz (1909–1997)".
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gen. et sp. nov., a middle Miocene South American primate".
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area of northern Colombia, where he stayed till 1943.
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Heyning JE. (1998). "Philip Hershkovitz 1909–1997".
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of South America, and also published extensively on
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395:Heteromys anomalus hershkovitzi
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302:Catalog of Living Whales
300:In 1966, he published a
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172:Retirement and death
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76:Schenley High School
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648:Fooden J. (1997b).
436:the fossil primate
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476:the fossil rodent
467:the chewing louse
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