'Colin Groves' is a Professor of Biological
Anthropology at the
Australian National University in
Canberra,
Australia.
Born in
England, he completed a BSc (
London) in
1963, and a PhD (London) in
1966. He taught at the
University of California, Berkeley,
Queen Elizabeth College (
London) and
Cambridge University before emigrating to
Australia in
1974, where he taught at the
Australian National University.
His research interests are
human evolution,
primates, other
mammals,
skeletal analysis,
biological anthropology and
ethnobiology. He is perhaps best known for his work on primates,
human evolution and his regular debates with
creationists and
anti-evolutionists.
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.
Major publications
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1989 ''Skeptical''. (Edited by
Donald Laycock,
David Vernon, Colin Groves and
Simon Brown.)
Australian Skeptics
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1996 From Ussher to Slusher; from Archbish to Gish; or, not in a million years... ''Archaeology in Oceania'', '31:'145-151.
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2001 ''Primate Taxonomy'', Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
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2003. ''The science of culture. Being Human: Science, Culture and Fear:''
Royal Society of New Zealand, Miscellaneous Series, 63:3-13.
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2004 (with
David W.Cameron) ''Bones, Stones and Molecules''. Amsterdam, Boston etc.: Elsevier Academic Press