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Patrick Bateson

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Sir
Patrick Bateson
FRS
Born
Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson

(1938-03-31)31 March 1938
Died1 August 2017(2017-08-01)(aged 79)[2]
EducationWestminster School[5]
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge(BA,PhD)
Known forBateson's cube
AwardsFrink Medal(2014)
Scientific career
FieldsEthology
Plasticity[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Stanford University[2]
ThesisThe Development of Filial and Avoidance behaviour in the domestic chicken(1963)
Doctoral advisorRobert Hinde[2]
Doctoral studentsMark H. Johnson[3][4]

Sir Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,FRS[6](31 March 1938 – 1 August 2017) was anEnglishbiologistwith interests inethologyandphenotypic plasticity.[1][7]Bateson was aprofessorat theUniversity of Cambridgeand served as president of theZoological Society of Londonfrom 2004 to 2014.[8][9][10][11][12]

Education

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Bateson was educated atWestminster SchoolandKing's College, Cambridge[5]where he was awarded aBachelor of Artsdegree inzoologyin 1960 and aPhDfor research onanimal behavioursupervised byRobert Hinde.[13][2][14][11]

Career and research

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Bateson was a biologist who specialised in researching the behaviour of animals and how it is influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Patrick was a world authority on imprinting in birds — the process of learning to recognise their parents and members of their own species — and his work led to new principles in behavioural development.[15]

Bateson devised original experiments that showed how characteristics of imprinting depend on the bird's early life experiences. Bateson's investigation of learning in birds has led to greater understanding of the neural basis of memory. He had an interest in how developmental and behavioural processes influence evolution.[15]

Bateson was concerned with the ethics of using animals in research and the analysis of animal pain and suffering. This led to a study exploring the effects hunting with hounds had on red deer, an inquiry into dog breeding, and a review of the use of animals in research.[15]

Previous academic positions include aHarkness FellowshipatStanford University[2][16]and ten years as head of the Cambridge sub-department of Animal Behaviour. Bateson served five years as biological secretary to the Royal Society and fifteen years asprovostofKing's College, Cambridge,retiring from both in 2003.[6]He retired from his Cambridge Chair in 2005.

Bateson published on such topics as ethology,animal welfare,behavioral development andevolution.[2]

Selected publications

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  • Growing Points in Ethology,withRobert Hinde(1976)[ISBN missing]
  • Mate Choice(1983)[ISBN missing]
  • The Development and Integration of Behaviour(1991)[ISBN missing]
  • Assessment of Pain in Animals(1991)[ISBN missing]
  • Behavioural Mechanisms in Evolutionary Perspective(1992)[ISBN missing]
  • Measuring Behaviour,withPaul Martin(3rd edition 2007)[ISBN missing]
  • The Behavioural and Physiological Effects of Culling Red Deer(1997)[ISBN missing]
  • Perspectives in Ethology(series)[ISBN missing]
  • Design For A Life,with Paul Martin (1999); 2000 hbkISBN0-684-86932-2;2001 pbkISBN0-684-86933-0[ISBN missing]
  • Independent Inquiry into Dog Breeding(2010)[ISBN missing]
  • Review of Research using Non-Human Primates(2011)[ISBN missing]
  • Plasticity, Robustness, Development and Evolution,withPeter Gluckman(2011)[ISBN missing]
  • Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation,with Paul Martin (2013)[ISBN missing]
  • Behaviour, Development and Evolution(2017)[ISBN missing]

Awards and honours

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Bateson wasknightedfor services to science in the2003 Birthday Honourslist. He received an HonoraryDoctor of Science(ScD) degree from theUniversity of St Andrews[17]and an Honorary Fellowship fromQueen Mary University of London.[18]

He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society(FRS) in 1983.[15]In 2014 he received theFrink Medalfrom theZoological Society of London.[19]

Personal life

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Patrick Bateson's grandfather's cousin was thegeneticistWilliam Bateson.Patrick's daughter is Melissa Bateson, also a professor of ethology, atNewcastle University.[20]Patrick Bateson was an atheist.[21]He died on 1 August 2017 at the age of 79.[2][5][22]

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References

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  1. ^abPatrick Batesonpublications indexed byGoogle ScholarEdit this at Wikidata
  2. ^abcdefgLaland, Kevin N. (2017)."Patrick Bateson (1938–2017) Biologist who unravelled how animal behaviour develops".Nature.548(7668): 394.doi:10.1038/548394a.ISSN0028-0836.PMID28836598.
  3. ^Johnson, Mark H. (1985).An analysis of the neural systems underlying filial preference behaviour in the domestic chick.Jisc.ac.uk(PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.OCLC59349905.EThOSuk.bl.ethos.356655.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^"Neurotree - Patrick Bateson".Neurotree.org.Retrieved9 April2019.
  5. ^abcAnon (2017)."Bateson, Prof. Sir (Paul) Patrick (Gordon)".Who's Who(onlineOxford University Pressed.). Oxford: A & C Black.doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.6789.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
  6. ^abLaland, Kevin N.;Rose, Steven (2019)."Sir Patrick Bateson FRS. 31 March 1938—1 August 2017".Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.66:25–51.doi:10.1098/rsbm.2018.0040.ISSN0080-4606.
  7. ^McCabe, Brian J. (2017)."Sir Patrick Bateson (1938–2017)".Science.358(6360): 174.Bibcode:2017Sci...358..174M.doi:10.1126/science.aap9754.ISSN0036-8075.PMID29026034.S2CID206664775.
  8. ^"Career profiles: How I came to study animal behaviour".Archived fromthe originalon 3 December 2013.Retrieved30 November2013.
  9. ^Macfarlane, Alan (2007)."Patrick Bateson interviewed by Alan Macfarlane".Alanmacfarlane.com.
  10. ^Patrick Batesonpublications indexed by theScopusbibliographic database.(subscription required)
  11. ^abAnon (2017)."Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, FRS".Zoo.cam.ac.uk.University of Cambridge.
  12. ^Bateson, Patrick;Barker, David;Clutton-Brock, Timothy;Deb, Debal; D'Udine, Bruno; Foley, Robert A.; Gluckman, Peter; Godfrey, Keith; Kirkwood, Tom; Lahr, Marta Mirazón; McNamara, John; Metcalfe, Neil B.;Monaghan, Patricia;Spencer, Hamish G.; Sultan, Sonia E. (2004). "Developmental plasticity and human health".Nature.430(6998): 419–421.Bibcode:2004Natur.430..419B.doi:10.1038/nature02725.ISSN0028-0836.PMID15269759.S2CID4374045.Closed access icon
  13. ^Bateson, Paul Patrick Gordon (1963).The Development of Filial and Avoidance behaviour in the domestic chicken.Copac.jisc.ac.uk(PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.OCLC500380329.EThOSuk.bl.ethos.449192.Archived fromthe originalon 18 November 2018.Retrieved11 December2017.
  14. ^Bateson, Patrick (2015)."Patrick Bateson".Current Biology.25(5): R180–R181.Bibcode:2015CBio...25.R180B.doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.040.ISSN0960-9822.PMID25897438.
  15. ^abcdAnon (2017)."Professor Patrick Bateson FRS".Royalsociety.org.London:Royal Society.Archived fromthe originalon 15 August 2017. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available underCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.”--"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies".Archived from the original on 11 November 2016.Retrieved24 August2017.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  16. ^"Patrick Bateson profile".Edge.org.Archived fromthe originalon 8 September 2016.Retrieved22 December2004.
  17. ^Honorary degreesArchived5 March 2016 at theWayback Machine,St-andrews.ac.uk; accessed 18 February 2017.
  18. ^Honorary FellowsArchived27 September 2016 at theWayback Machine,qmul.ac.uk; accessed 18 February 2017.
  19. ^"Winners of the ZSL Frink Medal for British Zoologists"(PDF).ZSL.Retrieved18 September2019.
  20. ^Davies, Nick(January 2018)."Sir Patrick Bateson 1938–2017".Ibis.160(1): 253–254.doi:10.1111/ibi.12550.
  21. ^"A confirmed agnostic, he [Bateson] was converted to atheism after attending a dinner where he tried to converse with a woman who was a creationist." For many years what had been good enough for Darwin was good enough for me. Not long after that dreadful dinner, Richard Dawkins wrote to me to ask whether I would publicly affirm my atheism. I could see no reason why not. "" Lewis Smith, 'Science has second thoughts about life', The Times (London), 1 January 2008, Pg. 24.
  22. ^Martin, Paul (14 August 2017)."Sir Patrick Bateson obituary".The Guardian.Retrieved15 August2017.
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