Colin Patterson FRS[1] (1933-1998)[2], was a paleontologist at the British Museum who specialised in fossil fish and systematics, advocating the transformed cladistics school.
He authored a general textbook on evolution, Evolution,[3] and edited Molecules and morphology in evolution: conflict or compromise?[4] a book on the use of molecular and morphological evidence for inferring phylogenies.
Patterson has been quote mined several times by creationists, most notably from a tape recording of a talk he gave in 1981 at the American Museum of Natural History for a systematics discussion group. Patterson personally rejected the creationist interpretations of his sayings.[5]