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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 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
Anthropology (from Greek: ἄνθρωπος, anthropos, "human being"; and λόγος, logos, "speech" lit. to talk about human beings) is the study of humanity.
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The Australian National University, or ANU, is a public university located in Canberra, Australia. It was created 1 August 1946 as a postgraduate research university. In 1960 undergraduate education was added to the ANU by amalgamation with the Canberra University College.
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Canberra
Australian Capital Territory

Location of Canberra within Australia

Population:
• Density: 323,056 (2006 Census) (8th)
137.
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Advance Australia Fair [1]


Capital Canberra

Largest city Sydney
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Dieu et mon droit   (French)
"God and my right"
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No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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Canary Wharf is the centre of London's modern office towers
London shown within England
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University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal
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Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College

Established 1976

Type Sixth Form College

Principle Ian Wilson

Location University Road
Leicester
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London
Canary Wharf is the centre of London's modern office towers
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University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the world's most prestigious universities.
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Advance Australia Fair [1]


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The Australian National University, or ANU, is a public university located in Canberra, Australia. It was created 1 August 1946 as a postgraduate research university. In 1960 undergraduate education was added to the ANU by amalgamation with the Canberra University College.
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Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species from other apes. It is the subject of a broad scientific inquiry that seeks to understand and describe how this change and development occurred.
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Primates
Linnaeus, 1758

Families
  • 15, See classification
A primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the last category
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Mammalia
Linnaeus, 1758

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  • Subclass †Allotheria*
  • Subclass Prototheria
  • Subclass Theria

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Biological anthropology, or physical anthropology is a branch of anthropology that studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution.
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Ethnobiology is the study of the past and present interrelationships between human cultures and the plants, animals, and other organisms in their environment, including relationships with ecosystems as a whole.
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Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species from other apes. It is the subject of a broad scientific inquiry that seeks to understand and describe how this change and development occurred.
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Creationism is a religious belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe were created in their original form by a deity or deities (often the Abrahamic God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam), whose existence is presupposed.
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The Australian Skeptics is a non-profit organization based in Australia which investigates paranormal and pseudoscientific claims using scientific methodologies.

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Dr. Donald 'Don' Laycock was an Australian linguist and anthropologist. He was a graduate of University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia and later worked as a researcher at the University of Adelaide in Anthropology.
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David Vernon may refer to:
*David Vernon (writer) - An Australian writer.
*David Vernon (professor) - A professor at the University of Genoa, Italy.
*David Vernon (law professor) - A professor from the University of Iowa, USA.

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Simon Brown may refer to:
  • Simon Brown (author), Australian science fiction writer
  • Simon Brown (cricketer), English cricketer
  • Simon Brown (footballer born 1976), English footballer
  • Simon Brown (footballer born 1983), English footballer
  • Simon Brown (boxer), U.

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The Australian Skeptics is a non-profit organization based in Australia which investigates paranormal and pseudoscientific claims using scientific methodologies.

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