Colin Patterson (biologist)

Colin Patterson
Born(1933-10-13)13 October 1933
London
Died9 March 1998(1998-03-09) (aged 64)
London
NationalityBritish
OccupationPalaeontologist
Parent(s)Maurice W. Patterson (father)
Norah J. Patterson (mother)
AwardsRomer-Simpson Medal
Linnean Medal

Colin Patterson FRS (19331998), was a British palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London from 1962 to his official retirement in 1993 who specialised in fossil fish and systematics, advocating the transformed cladistics school.