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CodePX1940
Dates1933-1998
Person NamePatterson; Colin (1933-1998)
SurnamePatterson
ForenamesColin
ActivityMuseum Staff: Department of Palaeontology; Appointed Senior Scientific Officer 2 July 1962; Principal Scientific Officer 1 June 1969; Appointed Senior Principal Scientific Officer: Special Merit (later Individual Merit Grade 6) 1 July 1974; Retired 10 Oct 1993. Worked in Vertebrate Biodiversity Research Group. Continued working at the museum after his retirement and died 'in service' 1998

Undertook his Phd on cretaceous fishes in London 1961. Was a fierce advocate of systematics through his work with fossil fishes which led him to challenge many of the traditional systematic practices that were widely used without question. He led the move away from classification through ancestry to classification through process searching for cladistic sister-groups that could be discovered by examining the structure of specimens.
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DF/PAL/126/2/3Lecture notes by Colin Patterson given at the American Museum of Natural History, 5 Nov 1981 
DF/PAL/126/2Patterson, Colin: Papers and Correspondence 
DF/PAL/100/57/69Bather 
DF/PAL/100/57/68Broom, R 
DF/PAL/107/151Press coverage of Hominids discovery 
DF/PAL/100/17/454Becker, Alex 
DF/PAL/100/57/118Challenger Office 
DF/PAL/116/37/124Mellen, P 
DF/PAL/116/37/115Trusted, E E  
DF/PAL/100/58/147Tweddell, F 
DF/PH/7/1/3/12Crown Prince Akihito in Fish Section 
DF/PAL/116/40/10Scott, Pauline  
DF/PAL/123/4/1Photographs of Echinoderms exhibited in Geology Department 
DF/PAL/100/17/453Becker, Alex 
DF/PH/7/1/3/9Crown Prince Akihito in Fish Section with Whitehead, P J P; Patterson, C and Greenwood, P H 
DF/PAL/100/57/108Caine, Reverend Caesar Caine 
DF/PAL/100/57/51Blaker, R 
DF/PAL/100/57/52Brand, J E 
DF/PAL/100/57/107Caine, Reverend Caesar 
DF/PAL/116/37/112Sharman, Ivan M 
DF/PAL/100/57/117Challenger Office 
DF/PAL/126/2/8/4Patterson, Colin: Correspondence relating to the Macroevolution Conference 1980 
DF/PH/2/5/1/2Staff Group Photograph: Palaeontology Department Staff, on steps in front of Main Entrance 
DF/PH/2/5/1/3Staff Group Photograph: Palaeontology Department Staff 
DF/PH/2/5/1/5Staff Group Photograph: Palaeontology Department Staff 
DF/PAL/118/1/15Additions: Geology, vol. I: 1 to 2000 
DF/PAL/118/1/17Additions: Geology, vol. III: 4001 - 6000 
DF/PAL/118/1/18Additions: Geology, vol. IV: 6001- 8000 
DF/PAL/118/1/19Additions: Geology, vol. V: 8001 - 10000 
DF/PAL/118/1/20Additions: Geology, vol. VI: 10001 - 12000 
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