Professor Colin Peter Groves Recognized by Worldwide Branding for Excellence in Conservation & Biodiversity

Professor Colin Peter Groves has made a name for himself as an expert in animal systematics

CANBERRA, ACT, AUSTRALIA, July 21, 2014, Professor Colin Peter Groves, Professor of Biological Anthropology with Australian National University, has been recognized by Worldwide Branding for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in conservation and biodiversity.

Dr. Groves has amassed a wealth of knowledge and experience over the course of a career spanning more than 50 years. He specializes in biological (physical) anthropology, phylogeny and comparative analysis, biogeography and phylogeography, animal systematics and taxonomy, and conservation and biodiversity.  

From 1966 to 1973, Dr. Groves was a postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Queen Elizabeth College and the University of Cambridge. He emigrated to Australia in 1974, and has been at the Australian National University since, being promoted to full professor in 2000. Dr. Groves' research interests are human evolution, primates, mammalian taxonomy, skeletal analysis, biological anthropology, ethnobiology and biogeography. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, India, Iran, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Along with the Czech biologist Professor Vratislav Mazák, Dr. Groves was the describer of Homo ergaster. Dr. Groves also wrote 'Primate Taxonomy' published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in 2001, and 'Ungulate Taxonomy.' He has many published skeptical papers, as well as research papers covering his other research interests. He has also conducted regular debates with creationists and anti-evolutionists. He supervises students and has published over 250 peer reviewed paper, articles and books.

He said of his career, 'I have done museum work on primates and other mammals all over the world. My lifelong studies on classification, variation and evolution of living primates culminated in 2001 with the publication of my book ‘Primate Taxonomy,’ but it continues with new discoveries and new assessments. I am regularly invited to address conferences on this subject, most recently the so-called Goettingen Freilandtage, an annual conference of primatologists in Germany, in December, 2005, and the African Genesis symposium in Johannesburg in January, 2006. I am also still publishing on human evolution, with a paper in press with a former Ph.D. student, Debbie Argue, and two other colleagues, on the infamous Hobbit, Homo floresiensis, and on the taxonomy of ungulates and other animals, including elephants and carnivores. Biogeography is an increasingly important theme in my research, giving clues to reconstruction of past climates and geography. My work has taken me to such places as Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, India, Iran, China and Indonesia. In the past few years I have done fieldwork in Sri Lanka and the Democratic Republic of Congo. I regularly collaborate in research with colleagues in Europe, China and Sri Lanka, among other places, although much of my research is sole-authored.'

Dr. Groves attributes his success to hard work and passion.. He became involved in his profession because his interest has been in human revolution and biology, furthering his career and research areas.

For more information about Australian National University, visit https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/groves-cp.

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