Design for a Life

Patrick Bateson

ISBN 10: 0099267624 / ISBN 13: 9780099267621

Published by VINTAGE Sep 2000, 2000

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Neuware - Design for a Life explains the science of behavioural development - the biological and psychological processes that build a unique adult from a fertilised egg. It explores the developmental cooking processes that give rise to individuals, and considers in turn how these processes have evolved.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Design for a Life
• Publisher: VINTAGE Sep 2000
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099267624
• ISBN 13: 9780099267621
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 199W x 132H x 18D millimeters 199 millimeters width by 132 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 202 grams

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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 ?

About the Author

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).