English biologist
Sir Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson ,
FRS
[6] (31 March 1938 – 1 August 2017) was an
English
biologist with interests in
ethology and
phenotypic plasticity .
[1]
[7] Bateson was a
professor at the
University of Cambridge and served as president of the
Zoological Society of London from 2004 to 2014.
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
Education
Bateson was educated at
Westminster School and
King's College, Cambridge
[5] where he was awarded a
Bachelor of Arts degree in
zoology in 1960 and a
PhD for research on
animal behaviour supervised by
Robert Hinde .
[13]
[2]
[14]
[11]
Career and research
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 a
Harkness Fellowship at
Stanford 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 as
provost of
King'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 and
evolution .
[2]
Selected publications
Growing Points in Ethology , with
Robert 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 , with
Paul 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 hbk
ISBN
0-684-86932-2 ; 2001 pbk
ISBN
0-684-86933-0 [
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 , with
Peter 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
Bateson was
knighted for services to science in the
2003 Birthday Honours list. He received an Honorary
Doctor of Science (ScD) degree from the
University of St Andrews
[17] and an Honorary Fellowship from
Queen Mary University of London .
[18]
He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983.
[15] In 2014 he received the
Frink Medal from the
Zoological Society of London .
[19]
Personal life
Patrick Bateson's grandfather's cousin was the
geneticist
William Bateson . Patrick's daughter is Melissa Bateson, also a professor of ethology, at
Newcastle University .
[20] Patrick Bateson was an atheist.
[21] He died on 1 August 2017 at the age of 79.
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External links
References
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Patrick Bateson publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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g Laland, Kevin N. (2017).
"Patrick Bateson (1938–2017) Biologist who unravelled how animal behaviour develops" .
Nature . 548 (7668): 394.
doi :
10.1038/548394a .
ISSN
0028-0836 .
PMID
28836598 .
^ 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.
OCLC
59349905 .
EThOS
uk.bl.ethos.356655 . [
permanent dead link ]
^
"Neurotree - Patrick Bateson" . Neurotree.org . Retrieved 9 April 2019 .
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c Anon (2017).
"Bateson, Prof. Sir (Paul) Patrick (Gordon)" .
Who's Who (online
Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.
doi :
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.6789 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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a
b
Laland, 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 .
ISSN
0080-4606 .
^ McCabe, Brian J. (2017).
"Sir Patrick Bateson (1938–2017)" . Science . 358 (6360): 174.
Bibcode :
2017Sci...358..174M .
doi :
10.1126/science.aap9754 .
ISSN
0036-8075 .
PMID
29026034 .
S2CID
206664775 .
^
"Career profiles: How I came to study animal behaviour" . Archived from
the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2013 .
^ Macfarlane, Alan (2007).
"Patrick Bateson interviewed by Alan Macfarlane" . Alanmacfarlane.com .
^
Patrick Bateson publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^
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b Anon (2017).
"Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, FRS" . Zoo.cam.ac.uk . University of Cambridge.
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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 .
ISSN
0028-0836 .
PMID
15269759 .
S2CID
4374045 .
^ 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.
OCLC
500380329 .
EThOS
uk.bl.ethos.449192 . Archived from
the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2017 .
^ Bateson, Patrick (2015).
"Patrick Bateson" . Current Biology . 25 (5): R180–R181.
Bibcode :
2015CBio...25.R180B .
doi :
10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.040 .
ISSN
0960-9822 .
PMID
25897438 .
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d Anon (2017).
"Professor Patrick Bateson FRS" . Royalsociety.org . London:
Royal Society . Archived from
the original on 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 under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .” --
"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies" . Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2017 . {{
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"Patrick Bateson profile" . Edge.org . Archived from
the original on 8 September 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2004 .
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Honorary degrees
Archived 5 March 2016 at the
Wayback Machine , St-andrews.ac.uk; accessed 18 February 2017.
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Honorary Fellows
Archived 27 September 2016 at the
Wayback Machine , qmul.ac.uk; accessed 18 February 2017.
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"Winners of the ZSL Frink Medal for British Zoologists" (PDF) . ZSL. Retrieved 18 September 2019 .
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Davies, Nick (January 2018).
"Sir Patrick Bateson 1938–2017" .
Ibis . 160 (1): 253–254.
doi :
10.1111/ibi.12550 .
^ "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.
^ Martin, Paul (14 August 2017).
"Sir Patrick Bateson obituary" .
The Guardian . Retrieved 15 August 2017 .
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