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The
Colin Groves pages
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A short illustrated history of Colin Groves, with examples of courses given
at the Australian National University, and thematic listing of publications. Some Groves publications, and a few others
from The Skeptic (the journal of the Australian Skeptics), are printed
in full on http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear/cg_groves_collection.htm
and a further listing of Colin Groves’s publications, and the status
of Biological Anthropology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at
the Australian National University, can be found at http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/aboutus/groves.htm
My work has concerned mostly mammalian taxonomy (especially Primates),
but I have from time to time enjoyed fieldwork in habitat countries, studying
primates or other mammals. Sadly, conservation has had to be an increasingly
urgent theme in my work.
Some of my other research has been in evolution, especially human evolution,
and I have more and more felt it necessary to counter the anti-evolutionary
nonsense put out by creationists - some of it simplistic and ill-informed,
some of it actually malicious. It is necessary to combat this and other pseudosciences,
not merely because it is wrong, but especially because, if taught in schools
or widely promoted to the general public, it gives the impression that science
is not a method of finding out, but a way to bolster up ones prejudices.
A link to my Australian mammal identification contribution to the School
of Archaeology & Anthropology's Skeletal Analysis course is here: BIAN3011.
Please read and note this announcement of the Intergovernmental
Meeting on Great Apes and First GRASP Council Meeting.
Links to some of my publications can be found under the appropriate
heading (below).