Colin Groves

Colin Groves
Born	(1942-06-24) 24 June 1942 England
Residence	Canberra
Fields	Biological Anthropology Palaeoanthropology Biogeography Primatology Mammal classification
Institutions	Australian National University University of California, Berkeley Queen Elizabeth College University of Cambridge
Alma mater	University College London (B.Sc.) Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (Ph.D.)
Known for	Biological classification of Homo ergaster

Colin Peter Groves is Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.^[1]

Born in England on 24 June 1942, Colin Groves completed a Bachelor of Science at University College London in 1963, and a Doctor of Philosophy at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in 1966. From 1966 to 1973, Dr. Groves was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Queen Elizabeth College and the University of Cambridge. He emigrated to Australia in 1974, and has been at the Australian National University since, being promoted to full Professor in 2000.^[2]

Professor Groves' research interests are human evolution, primates, mammalian taxonomy, skeletal analysis, biological anthropology, ethnobiology and biogeography.^[2] He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, India, Iran, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Along with the Czech biologist Professor Vratislav Mazák, Groves was the describer of Homo ergaster.^[3] Groves also wrote Primate Taxonomy published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in 2001, and Ungulate Taxonomy (2011, Johns Hopkins Press).

He is an active member of the Australian Skeptics and has many published skeptical papers, as well as research papers covering his other research interests.^[4] He has also conducted regular debates with creationists and anti-evolutionists.^[4]

Limited bibliography

• Groves, C (1989). A Theory Of Human And Primate Evolution. Oxford Science Publications. ISBN 0-19-857758-3. 
• Groves, C (1989). Laycock, D;, ed. Skeptical, a handbook on pseudoscience and the paranormal. Australian Skeptics. ISBN 0-7316-5794-2. 
• Groves, C (1996). "From Ussher to Slusher; from Archbish to Gish; or, not in a million years...". Archaeology in Oceania 31: 145–151. 
• Groves, C (2001). Primate Taxonomy. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-872-X. 
• Cameron, DW; Groves C (2004). Bones, Stones and Molecules. Boston: Elsevier. p. 402. ISBN 0-12-156933-0. 
• Groves, C (2008). Extended Family: Long Lost Cousins. A Personal Look at the History of Primatology. Arlington, Virginia: Conservation International. p. 227. ISBN 1-934151-25-4. 

Footnotes

External links

• The Colin Groves Pages (link broken: Archived April 18, 2013 at the Wayback Machine)
• The Groves Collection at No Answers in Genesis
• ANU Faculty Homepage
• ANU Researcher Profile page