Patrick Bateson

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Sir Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson (born March 31, 1938 in the Chinnor , Chiltern Hills , Oxfordshire , England - † August 1, 2017 ) was a British zoologist and science writer. He was Professor of Animal Behavior at Cambridge University since 1984 , Vice President of the Royal Society and, since 2004, President of the Zoological Society of London .

In addition to Nikolaas Tinbergen , Robert Hinde and William Thorpe , he made a significant contribution to establishing the biological field of behavioral research in Great Britain.

Life

Patrick Bateson first attended Westminster School in London and then studied natural sciences at Cambridge University from 1957. This was followed by a two-year guest stay in the USA in the laboratory of Karl H. Pribram at Stanford University . After returning to the laboratory for behavioral research in Cambridge, he received two doctorates (PhD 1963, ScD 1977), and Robert Hinde was the reviewer for his first dissertation on imprinting in birds.

Even after researching Bateson especially in the field of developmental biology of behavior , often in collaboration with neurobiologists Gabriel Horn (1927-2012) and Steven Rose , u. a. on the neurobiological basis of the phenomenon of imprinting in birds and on the learning behavior of cats and monkeys. In these mammals he was particularly interested in the consequences of playful activities in boys for the development of physical, cognitive and social behavior as adults. In the 1990s, he led a research project for the National Trust on the effects of dog hunting on the physiology and behavior of red deer .

In addition to his various academic tasks (including being Rector of King's College in Cambridge from 1988 to 2003 ), he saw himself as a mediator between the natural sciences and the non-academic public and wrote numerous popular science books on behavioral research, developmental biology and genetics. He was repeatedly asked to advise the British Parliament . In 1983 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . From 2004 to 2014 he was President of the Zoological Society of London . In 2003 he was knighted. Since 2006 he has been an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

Patrick Bateson was married to Dusha Matthews from 1963, the couple had two girls. The geneticist William Bateson was a cousin of Patrick Bateson's grandfather.

Fonts (selection)

  • The characteristics and context of imprinting. In: Biological Reviews. Volume 41, No. 2, 1966, pp. 177-217, doi: 10.1111 / j.1469-185X.1966.tb01489.x .
  • How do sensitive periods arise and what are they for? In: Animal Behavior. Volume 27, No. 2, 1979, pp. 470-486, doi: 10.1016 / 0003-3472 (79) 90184-2 .
  • with Gabriel Horn: Imprinting and recognition memory: a neural net model. In: Animal Behavior. Volume 48, No. 3, 1994, pp. 695-715, doi: 10.1006 / anbe.1994.1289 .
  • What must be known in order to understand imprinting? In: Cecilia Heyes and Ludwig Huber (eds.): The Evolution of Cognition. MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2000, pp. 85-102, ISBN 978-0-26252696-8 .
  • as editor: Mate Choice . Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-521-27207-6 .
  • with Paul Martin: Measuring Behavior. An Introductory Guide. Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-521-44614-7
  • The Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Culling Red Deer. The National Trust, 1997.
  • with Paul Martin: Design for a Life. How Behavior Develops . Jonathon Cape Publisher, London 1999, ISBN 0-224-05064-8 (2000: Vintage Paperback, ISBN 0-09-926762-4 ).
  • Ethical debates about animal suffering and the use of animals in research. In: Journal of Consciousness Studies . Volume 18, No. 9-10, 2011, pp. 186-208

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professor Sir Patrick Bateson. King's College Cambridge, September 7, 2017, accessed March 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Sir Patrick Bateson obituary. On: theguardian.com from August 14, 2017
  3. ↑ Deer succumb to the stress of the chase. On: newscientist.com April 19, 1997
  4. ^ Member History: Patrick Bateson. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 24, 2018 (with a short biography).
  5. ↑ Sir Patrick Bateson: Zoologists Should Not 'Hog' Upcoming Royal Society Evolution Meeting. Accessed March 26, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bateson, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bateson, Paul Patrick Gordon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British zoologist and science writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Chinnor , Chiltern Hills , Oxfordshire , England
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 2017