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Colin Groves

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

• 1989 A Theory Of Human And Primate Evolution Oxford Science Publications
• 1989 Skeptical. (Edited by Donald Laycock, David Vernon, Colin Groves and Simon Brown.) Australian Skeptics
• 1996 From Ussher to Slusher; from Archbish to Gish; or, not in a million years... Archaeology in Oceania, 31:145-151.
• 2001 Primate Taxonomy, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
• 2003. The science of culture. Being Human: Science, Culture and Fear: Royal Society of New Zealand, Miscellaneous Series, 63:3-13.
• 2004 (with David W.Cameron) Bones, Stones and Molecules. Amsterdam, Boston etc.: Elsevier Academic Press