Patrick Bateson

Sir Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson ( born 1938 ) is an English zoologist and science writer. He is since 1984 professor of behavioral biology at Cambridge University, vice-president of the Royal Society and, since 2004, president of the Zoological Society of London.

Besides Nikolaas Tinbergen, Robert Hinde and William Thorpe made ​​a major contribution to establishing the biological field of behavioral research in the UK. In 2003 he was knighted.

Bateson had already studied at Cambridge, where he became a PhD twice ( PhD 1963, ScD 1977). In addition to his various academic tasks (eg, he was from 1988 to 2003 Rector of King 's College, Cambridge ) he sees 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. Repeatedly, he was in demand as a consultant to the British Parliament.

He conducted research mainly in the field of developmental biology of behavior, including on cats and on the phenomenon of imprinting in birds. For the National Trust, he led a research project on the impact of the hunt with dogs on physiology and behavior in red deer.

Works

  • Patrick Bateson (ed.) Mate Choice. 1983: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-27207-6.
  • Paul Martin, Patrick Bateson: Measuring Behaviour. An Introductory Guide. 1993: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-44614-7
  • Patrick Bateson: The Behavioural and Physiological Effects of Culling Red Deer, The National Trust in 1997.
  • Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin: Design for a Life. How Behaviour Develops. 1999: London ( publisher Jonathon Cape), ISBN 0-224-05064-8 (2000: Vintage Paperback, ISBN 0-09-926762-4 ).
  • Zoologist
  • Behavioral scientists
  • Member of the Royal Society
  • Briton
  • Born in 1938
  • Man
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