Patrick Bateson
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'''Sir Patrick Bateson''', [[Royal Society|FRS]] (born [[31 March]] [[1938]]) is an [[England|English]] [[biology|biologist]] and science writer. Bateson is emeritus [[professor]] of [[ethology]] at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] and president of the [[Zoological Society of London]] since 2004.
Bateson's grandfather's cousin was the [[genetics|geneticist]] [[William Bateson]]. Patrick Bateson received his [[Bachelor's degree|BA]] in [[zoology]] and [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]] in [[ethology|animal behaviour]] from [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]. Previous academic positions include a [[Harkness Fellowship]] at [[Stanford University]] and ten years as head of the Cambridge sub-department of Animal Behaviour. He was elected a fellow of the [[Royal Society]] in 1983. He retired as the biological secretary to the Royal Society and [[Provost (education)|Provost]] of [[King's College, Cambridge|King's College, Cambridge]] in 2003, but continues in his other roles. He was made a [[knight bachelor]] in 2003.
Bateson is a research scientist and [[popular science|science populariser]] who has written many books and articles on ethology, [[animal welfare]], [[developmental biology]] and [[genetics]], gives public lectures and broadcasts, as well as advising [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] on scientific matters.
==Selected works==
* "[[Growing Points in Ethology]]", with [[Robert Hinde]] (1976)
* ''[[Mate Choice]]'' (1983)
* ''[[The Development and Integration of Behaviour]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Behavioural Mechanisms in Evolutionary Perspective]]'' (1992)
* ''[[Measuring Behaviour]]'', with [[Paul Martin (biologist)|Paul Martin]] (1993)
* "[[The Behavioural and Physiological Effects of Culling Red Deer]]" (1997)
* ''[[Perspectives in Ethology]]'' (series)
* ''[[Design For A Life]]'', with Paul Martin (1999)
* "Innateness and the sciences", with [[Matteo Mameli]], in ''[[Biology and Philosophy]]'', 21(2), pp.155-188 (2006).
== See also ==
* [[Bateson's cube]]
==External links==
* [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/batesonp.html The Edge biography]
* [http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~ppgb/ Official homepage]
* http://asab.icapb.ed.ac.uk/resources/profiles/bateson.html
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