Colin Patterson (biologist)

Colin Patterson FRS^[1] (1933-1998)^[2], was a paleontologist at the British Museum who specialised in fossil fish and systematics, advocating the transformed cladistics school.

He authored a general textbook on evolution, Evolution,^[3] and edited Molecules and morphology in evolution: conflict or compromise?^[4] a book on the use of molecular and morphological evidence for inferring phylogenies.

Patterson has been quote mined several times by creationists, most notably from a tape recording of a talk he gave in 1981 at the American Museum of Natural History for a systematics discussion group. Patterson personally rejected the creationist interpretations of his sayings.^[5]

References

1. ^ Fortey, R. A. (1999). "Colin Patterson. 13 October 1933--9 March 1998: Elected F.R.S. 1993". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 45: 365. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0025.  edit
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3. ^ Patterson 1999, Evolution. Comstock Pub. Associates [2]
4. ^ Patterson (Ed.) 1987, Molecules and morphology in evolution: conflict or compromise? Cambridge University Press [3]
5. ^ http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/patterson.html

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Name	Patterson, Colin
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