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Jeheskel Shoshani

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#148

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#178

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Evolutionary Biology

#438

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#468

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Jeheskel Shoshani's Degrees

PhD Zoology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Zoology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Zoology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Jeheskel "Hezy" Shoshani was an evolutionary biologist who studied elephants and their relatives for over 35 years. Life and work Early life and career Shoshani was born in what is now Tel Aviv, Israel, but he held dual citizenship in the United States. His interest in elephants began in his youth after he read a Hebrew copy of Willis Lindquist's Burma Boy, which told the story of the relationship between a boy and an elephant. He began his career as a zookeeper at the Tel Aviv Zoo and became the head zookeeper in 1966. He went on to research elephants in Sri Lanka and Kenya before moving to Detroit, Michigan in 1968 and becoming an undergraduate professor at Wayne State University around 1973. Shoshani founded the Elephant Interest Group in June 1977, and was the sole editor of its official journal, Elephant , for most of its run. He also established the Elephant Research Foundation Library, through which he collected and cataloged published and archival materials, displays, and biological samples relating to elephants. Shoshani was awarded his PhD from the university in 1986 and taught there while living with his wife Sandra and their pet rock hyrax until he moved to Eritrea in 1998. There, he studied a poorly-known population of African bush elephants that were threatened by conflicts between Eritrea and Ethiopia and taught at the University of Asmara until 2006. Concerned about the danger of the Eritrea-Ethiopia border area, he moved to Ethiopia in 2007 to continue his research, and taught at the University of Addis Ababa.

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Jeheskel Shoshani's Published Works

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Toward a phylogenetic classification of Primates based on DNA evidence complemented by fossil evidence. (1998) (747)
The Proboscidea : evolution and palaeoecology of elephants and their relatives (1996) (244)
Higher taxonomic relationships among extant mammals based on morphology, with selected comparisons of results from molecular data. (1998) (225)
Primate phylogeny: morphological vs. molecular results. (1996) (206)
Elephant brain Part I: Gross morphology, functions, comparative anatomy, and evolution (2006) (177)
Mammalian phylogeny: comparison of morphological and molecular results. (1986) (136)
Understanding proboscidean evolution: a formidable task. (1998) (122)
Advances in proboscidean taxonomy & classification, anatomy & physiology, and ecology & behavior (2005) (120)
Dental identification and age determination in Elephas maximus (1988) (97)
Phylogenetic resolution within the Elephantidae using fossil DNA sequence from the American mastodon (Mammut americanum) as an outgroup. (1996) (88)
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF PALEONTOLOGY (2006) (86)
Living African elephants belong to two species: Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797) and Loxodonta cyclotis (Matschie, 1900) (2000) (85)
Perspectives from amino acid and nucleotide sequences on cladistic relationships among higher taxa of eutheria (1990) (77)
Elephants and Human Color-Blind Deuteranopes Have Identical Sets of Visual Pigments Sequence data from this article have been deposited with the EMBL/GenBank Data Libraries under accession nos. AY686752, AY686753, AY686754. (2005) (70)
ELEPHANTIDAE PHYLOGENY : MORPHOLOGICAL VERSUS MOLECULAR RESULTS (1998) (68)
On the Dissection of a Female Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus maxiums Linnaeus, 1758) and Data from Other Elephants (1982) (54)
A proboscidean from the late Oligocene of Eritrea, a “missing link” between early Elephantiformes and Elephantimorpha, and biogeographic implications (2006) (48)
Proboscidean origins of mastodon and woolly mammoth demonstrated immunologically (1985) (39)
Proboscidean DNA from Museum and Fossil Specimens: An Assessment of Ancient DNA Extraction and Amplification Techniques (1997) (38)
Relationships within the Elephantinae using hyoid characters (2007) (36)
THE LARGE FOSSIL MAMMALS FROM FROM BUIA (ERITREA):SYSTEMATICS, BIOCHRONOLOGY AND PALEOENVIRONMENTS (2004) (35)
Hyracoidea-Tethytheria Affinity Based on Myological Data (1993) (30)
A Phylogeny of Rodentia and Other Eutherian Orders: Parsimony Analysis Utilizing Amino Acid Sequences of Alpha and Beta Hemoglobin Chains (1985) (27)
A blind testing design for authenticating ancient DNA sequences. (1997) (26)
FOSSIL REPTILES FROM THE PLEISTOCENE HOMO -BEARING LOCALITY OF BUIA (ERITREA, NORTHERN DANAKIL DEPRESSION) (2004) (26)
Hyoid apparatus: a little known complex of bones and its "contribution" to proboscidean evolution (2001) (18)
The elephants of Gash-Barka, Eritrea: nuclear and mitochondrial genetic patterns. (2014) (17)
Fossil Elephantoids: From the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash Valley, Afar Depression, Ethiopia.Jon E. Kalb , Assefa Mebrate (1994) (15)
Elephants: the super keystone species (1993) (12)
Perissodactyla and Proboscidea (1998) (11)
On the Phylogenetic Relationships Among Paenungulata and Within Elephantidae as Demonstrated by Molecular and Osteological Evidence (1986) (10)
Elephants and other Proboscideans: a summary of recent findings and new taxonomic suggestions (2001) (10)
THE ELEPHANTS OF ZOBA GASH BARKA, ERITREA: PART 4. CHOLELITHIASIS IN A WILD AFRICAN ELEPHANT (LOXODONTA AFRICANA) (2005) (9)
The Shelton Mastodon Site: Multidisciplinary Study of a Late Pleistocene (Twocreekan) Locality in Southeastern Michigan (1989) (9)
Head muscles of Loxodonta africana and Elephas maximus with comments on Mammuthus primigenius muscles (2007) (9)
Mount Elgon's Elephants Are in Peril (1987) (8)
Late Pleistocene Fishes from the Shelton Mastodon site (Oakland County, Michigan) and Their Ecological Context (1996) (7)
Taxonomy, Classification, History, and Evolution of Elephants (2008) (7)
Case 3004. Lorisidae Gray, 1821 and Galagidae Gray, 1825 (Mammalia, Primates): proposed conservation as the correct original spellings (1998) (7)
The Illustrated encyclopedia of elephants (1991) (6)
An Abstract on the Dissection of a Female Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus maximus Linnaeus, 1758) (1980) (4)
Jumbo: Origin of the Word and History of the Elephant (1986) (4)
The elephants (Loxodonta africana) of Zoba Gash Barka, Eritrea. Pt. 3. Ecological and other data from tusks, teeth and carcasses (2004) (4)
Tissue vestiges of an ancient Magadan mammoth calf. (1980) (4)
ECOLOGY AND TAXONOMY: A NEW APPROACH, USING HETEROHYRAX VS PROCAVIA AS A CASE STUDY (1992) (4)
Frequently Asked Questions About Elephants (2000) (4)
African elephant population estimates and distribution: 1995 update (2000) (3)
Do elephants feel pain and if so, how do we know this? (2000) (3)
A Report on the Shelton Mastodon Site and a Discussion of the Numbers of Mastodons and Mammoths in Michigan (2002) (2)
Observations on elephant habitat and conservation of elephants in Eritrea (2000) (2)
Elephants have a large neocortex too (1988) (2)
PALEOZOOGEOGRAPHY AND NEOZOOGEOGRAPHY OF MAMMALS IN ERITREA (2004) (1)
The controversy continues : an overview of evidence for Hyracoidea-Tethytheria affinity (2013) (1)
Little players and big players (1997) (1)
Great ears: Functional comparisons of land and marine leviathan ears (2006) (1)
"Ahmed", The Logo of the Elephant Interest Group: Encounters in Marsabit and Notes on His Model and Skeleton (1987) (1)
Field Observations of Living and Dead Elephants (Including Some Interpretations) in Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe (1986) (1)
The elephant pharyngeal pouch — was the mystery resolved? (2000) (1)
Diatoms from the Sheiton Mastodon Site (2001) (1)
Meeting of the Elephant Interest Group at Michigan State University, June 21, 1977 (1977) (0)
Index to volume 1 (1980) (0)
Observations of Elephants in East and Southern Africa (1979) (0)
Detection and inhibition of fungi from the excised trunk of an asian elephant (1991) (0)
Rana catesbeiana and R. clamitans from the Late Pleistocene of Michigan (1991) (0)
Elephantiformes and Elephantimorpha , and biogeographic implications A proboscidean from the late Oligocene of Eritrea , a " missing link " between early (2006) (0)
Erratum: Phylogenetic resolution within the elephantidae using fossil DNA sequence from the American mastodon (Mammut americanum) as an outgroup (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of america (Feb 6, 1996) 93 (1190-1194)) (1996) (0)
Environmental reconstruction based on the Yukagir Mammoth's last meal (2005) (0)
Reviews and Recent Literature on Elephants (1980) (0)
Items passed through elephants' digestive systems and a warning (2000) (0)
Elephant Notes and News (1986) (0)
Hanks, John. The Struggle for Survival: The Elephant Problem. Mayflower Books, Inc., New York, 176 pp., 1979. Price $14.95 (1980) (0)
Elephas maximus Linnaeus , 1758 Asian Elephant (0)

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