Colin Groves

Colin Peter Groves (* June 24, 1942 in London, England) is a British- Australian anthropologist, primatologist, Mammaloge and biologist. His research focuses on the evolutionary history of humans, primates, the classification of mammals, osteology, biological anthropology, ethno- biology and biogeography.

Life and work

Groves graduated 1963 Bachelor of Science at University College London and in 1966 he received his Ph.D. at London's Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. From 1966 to 1976 he was a post - doctoral student and research officer at the University of California, Berkeley, at Queen Elizabeth College and the University of Cambridge. In 1974 he emigrated to Australia. Since then he has worked at the Australian National University in Canberra where he holds a Chair of Biological Anthropology since 2000 held.

Groves conducted extensive field studies in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, India, Iran, the People's Republic of China, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Together with the Czech biologist Professor Vratislav Mazák he described in 1975 Homo ergaster, which is considered Chrono species of the genus Homo. In 2001 he published in the publishing Smithsonian Institution Press the standard work Primate Taxonomy, which is one of the most important books in the current primate research.

Groves is a member of the Association Australian Skeptics, a group of scientists who deals with paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. In addition, he regularly conducts debates with creationists and anti- evolutionists.

Works (selection)

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