Colin Groves

Born in England, 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, he was a postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Queen Elizabeth College and the University of Cambridge.

Groves emigrated to Australia in 1973 and joined the Australian National University, where he was promoted to full professor in 2000{{cite web | last = Groves | first = C | year = 2000 | title = Colin Groves [personal profile entry] | publisher = Archaeology World | url = http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/aboutus/groves.htm | access-date = 2009-06-04 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090129144402/http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/aboutus/groves.htm | archive-date = 29 January 2009 | df = dmy-all }} and remained emeritus professor until his death.{{Cite news |date=2017-11-30 |title=Vale Emeritus Professor Colin Groves |url=http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/vale-emeritus-professor-colin-groves |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329090937/http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/vale-emeritus-professor-colin-groves |archive-date=2023-03-29 |access-date=2017-11-30 |work=ANU |language=en}}

Along with the Czech biologist Professor Vratislav Mazák, Groves was the describer of Homo ergaster.{{cite journal | last = Kramer | first = A | year = 1993 | title = Human Taxonomic Diversity in the Pleistocene: Does Homo erectus Represent Multiple Hominid Species? | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | volume = 91 | pages = 161–171 | doi = 10.1002/ajpa.1330910203 | pmid = 8317558 | issue = 2 }} Groves also wrote Primate Taxonomy published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in 2001, and Ungulate Taxonomy, co-authored by Peter Grubb (2011, Johns Hopkins Press).

He was an active member of the Australian Skeptics and had many published sceptical papers, as well as research papers covering his other research interests. He also conducted regular debates with creationists and anti-evolutionists.{{cite web | last = Stears | title = The Groves Collection | url = http://www.noanswersingenesis.org.au/cg_groves_collection.htm | access-date = 2009-08-28 | publisher = Noanswersingenesis.org}} Groves opposed the arguments of creationism, stating "It is a great mistake to ignore the threat: it will not just go away, it must be countered. ... Scientists, but most especially archaeologists, are in the front line; we, not the artists or the politicians, are the ones with ammunition to stem the tide of creationist rubbish, and relegate it to Monty Python's Flying Circus where it belongs."[https://ncse.ngo/colin-groves-dies "Colin Groves dies"]. National Center for Science Education. Retrieved 30 January 2021.

Groves' research interests included human evolution, primates, mammalian taxonomy, skeletal analysis, biological anthropology, ethnobiology, cryptozoology, and biogeography. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, India, Iran, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} He is credited with confirming the status of the Hatinh langur as a separate species from the François' langur in 2005.{{Cite book |title=Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference |date=2005 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |isbn=978-0-8018-8221-0 |edition=3. Aufl |location=Baltimore & London}}

Groves died on 30 November 2017 at the age of 75. In 2018, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Primatological Society in 2018 in Nairobi, becoming the first posthumous person to receive this award.{{Cite journal |last=Pilbrow |first=Varsha |last2=Rylands |first2=Anthony |date=2019-04-23 |title=The Contributions to Primatology of Colin P. Groves (1942-2017): Corecipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Primatological Society, 2018 |url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10764-019-00088-9.pdf |journal=International Journal of Primatology}}

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• {{cite book |author=Groves, C. | year = 1989 | title = A theory of human and primate evolution | publisher = Oxford Science Publications |location=New York |doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330810314}}
• {{cite book | last = Groves | first = C. | title = Skeptical, a handbook on pseudoscience and the paranormal | isbn = 0-7316-5794-2 | year = 1989 | editor = Laycock, D | editor-link = Donald Laycock | publisher = Australian Skeptics}}
• {{cite journal | year = 1996 | title = From Ussher to Slusher; from Archbish to Gish; or, not in a million years...| url = http://www.noanswersingenesis.org.au/cgfromushertoslusher.htm | journal = Archaeology in Oceania | volume = 31 | pages = 145–151 | last = Groves | first = C.| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4453.1996.tb00357.x| url-access = subscription }}
• {{cite journal |author=Groves, C. P. |year=1997 |title=Leopard-cats, Prionailurus bengalensis (Carnivora: Felidae) from Indonesia and the Philippines, with the description of two new subspecies |journal=Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde |volume=62 |pages=330–338}}
• {{cite book | last = Groves | first = C. | year = 2001 | title = Primate Taxonomy | publisher = Smithsonian Institution Press | location = Washington D.C. | isbn = 1-56098-872-X }}

• {{cite book | year = 2004 |last = Cameron | first = D. W. |author2=Groves, C. | title = Bones, Stones and Molecules | location = Boston | publisher = Elsevier | pages = 402 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SwzHI1vesyIC&pg=PP1 | isbn = 0-12-156933-0}}
• {{cite book | year = 2008 | title = Extended Family: Long Lost Cousins. A Personal Look at the History of Primatology | publisher = Conservation International | location = Arlington, Virginia | isbn = 978-1-934151-25-9 | last = Groves | first = C. |pages = 227}}
• {{cite journal |author1=Groves, C. |author2=Mcleod, K. |date=2014 |title=Birth of a notion |journal=The Skeptic |publisher=Australian Skeptics |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=39 |url=http://www.skeptics.com.au/wp-content/uploads/magazine/The%20Skeptic%20Volume%2034%20(2014)%20No%204.pdf |access-date=2016-03-17}}

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• [http://arts.anu.edu.au/grovco/ The Colin Groves Pages] (link broken: {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130418130649/http://arts.anu.edu.au/grovco/ |date=18 April 2013 }})
• [https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/groves-cp The Colin Groves Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423063953/https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/groves-cp |date=23 April 2013 }} (new page)
• [http://noanswersingenesis.org.au/cg_groves_collection.htm The Groves Collection at No Answers in Genesis]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110221011640/http://archanth.anu.edu.au/staff/professor-colin-groves ANU Faculty Homepage]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130423063953/https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/groves-cp ANU Researcher Profile page]

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