Janis A. Roze, Ph.D., born in Latvia

Latvia

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, is a herpetologist and Professor of Biology Emeritus of City College

City College of New York

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 and Graduate School

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 of the City University of New York. He was professionally associated with the American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History

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 and the United Nations

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. A founder of the International Center for Integrative Studies he published several books and narrated several videos on Creative Evolution. He co-edited What Does it Mean to Be Human.

A short résumé from the "Be Human" film site of The Ecological Institute of Búzios, Atlantic Rain Forest, Brazil:

• Fulbright Senior Scholar
• Co-Director of UASD International Exchange Program of University of New York
• Advisor at United Nations Center of Science and Technology.
• Member of the expert group of UN for the establishment of a new international order.
• Member of the ICIS (International Center of Integrative Studies), and Elpis Foundation, Argentina.

Published works

• On Hallowell's type specimens of reptiles from Venezuela in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1958)
• Taxonomic notes on a collection of Venezuelan reptiles in the American Museum of Natural History (1959)
• La taxonomía y zoogeografía de los ofidios en Venezuela (1966)
• A check list of the New World venomous coral snake
  Coral snake
  The coral snakes are a large group of elapid snakes that can be subdivided into two distinct groups, Old World coral snakes and New World coral snakes...
  
  s (Elapidae
  Elapidae
  Elapidae is a family of venomous snakes found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, terrestrially in Asia, Australia, Africa, North America and South America and aquatically in the Pacific and Indian Oceans...
  
  ), with descriptions of new forms (1967)
• Ciencia y fantasía sobre las serpentes de Venezuela (1970)
• New species and subspecies of coral snakes, genus Micrurus (Elapidae) : with notes on type specimens of several species (1989)
• Coral snakes of the Americas : biology, identification, and venoms (1996)
• Evolución y magia : el camino del hombre (2000)

Awards

• Golden medal of merit, Central University of Venezuela
  Central University of Venezuela
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• National award of Scientific Research of Venezuela (1962)

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