Synopsis
Offers an understanding of the science that lies behind many current controversies in parenting, education, social policy and medicine. This book attempts to answer the question, how and why does each of us grow up to be the person we are ?
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Patrick Bateson is Emeritus Professor of Ethology (the biological study of behaviour) at Cambridge University, a fellow at King's College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has also been the provost of King's College, Cambridge and the Biological Secretary of the Royal Society. He received a BA in Zoology and a PhD in Animal Behaviour from Cambridge University, held a Harkness Fellowship at Stanford University and was Director of the the Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour at Cambridge for ten years. He has edited and co-edited several books, including Mate Choice (1983), The Development and Integration of Behaviour (1991), Behavioural Mechanisms in Evolutionary Perspective (1992) and the series Perspectives in Ethology. Paul Martin studied biology at Cambridge University, where he acquired a First in Natural Sciences and a PhD in behavioural biology; and at Stanford University, where he was a Harkness Fellow. He subsequently lectured and researched at Cambridge University. He is the co-author, with Patrick Bateson, of Measuring Behaviour (1993), and author of The Sickening Mind (1998).
Review
"If you have time to read only one book about human development, read this one" -- Jared Diamond, Professor of Physiology at UCLA and Pulitzer Prize Winner "This thoughtful and engaging book should be on everyone's reading list" * New Scientist * "Refresh your brows with the cool breeze of reason that is Bateson and Martin's overview... fascinating" * Guardian * "At last! In their sane and lucid - and much needed - corrective to the torrent of overblown genetic rhetoric, Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin take the reader on a journey through humanity's seven ages" -- Steven Rose "Bateson and Martin have delivered what others have claimed to provide: a solid, signposted road out of the trench war between nature and nurture" -- Marek Kohn * Independent *
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