Colin Groves

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Colin Groves with a Mountain Gorilla Skull (2007)

Colin Peter Groves (born June 24, 1942 in London - † November 30, 2017 in Canberra , Australia ) was a British - Australian anthropologist , primatologist , mammalogist and biologist . His main research interests were the tribal history of humans , primates , the systematics of mammals , osteology , biological anthropology , ethnobiology and biogeography .

Life

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 fellow at the University of California, Berkeley , 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 held a chair in biological anthropology from 2000 .

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

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

Groves was a member of the Australian Skeptics Association , a group of scholars dealing with paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. In addition, he regularly led debates with creationists and anti-evolutionists.

Dedication names

In 2015, Guy Musser honored Colin Groves with the extinct giant rat species Lenomys grovesi from Sulawesi . In the same year the Indonesian herpetologist AA Thasun Amarasinghe described the snake species Rabdion grovesi from Sulawesi. In 2017, the fossil horned species Bubalus grovesi , which is related to the lowland anoa, and the fat- tailed lemur Cheirogaleus grovesi were named in honor of Colin Groves. 2018 Groves was with the Springaffenart Plecturocebus grovesi honored.

Works (selection)

  • 1970: Gorillas (German: The world of animals: Gorillas , translation by Erika Schindel)
  • 1974: Horses, asses, and zebras in the wild
  • 1981: Ancestors for the pigs: Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Sus
  • 1984: Pigs
  • 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 ... Archeology in Oceania , 31: 145-151.
  • 2001: Primate Taxonomy , Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC
  • 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
  • 2005: Order Primates in DE Wilson; DM Reeder, Mammal Species of the World . A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4
  • 2008: Extended Family: Long Lost Cousins: A Personal Look at the History of Primatology . Arlington, Virginia: Conservation International . ISBN 978-1-934151-25-9
  • 2011: Ungulate Taxonomy (with Peter Grubb )
  • 2011: Book chapter: Musk deers and hornbills in the Handbook of the Mammals of the World . Volume 2: Hoofed Animals
  • 2013: Book chapter: Vervet monkeys , gibbons and great apes in the Handbook of the Mammals of the World . Volume 3: Primates
  • 2015: Taxonomy of Australian Mammals . CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 978-1-486300-12-9

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vale Emeritus Professor Colin Groves . Obituary from The Australian National University, November 30, 2017, accessed December 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Groves, Colin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groves, Colin Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Australian anthropologist, primatologist, mammalogist and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2017
Place of death Canberra , Australia