Design for Life - Couverture rigide

Bateson, Patrick; Martin, Paul C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224050648 ISBN 13 : 9780224050647

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 1999

Synopsis

This work aims to explain the science of behavioural development, the biological and psychological processes that build an adult from a fertilized egg. It also explores the developmental cooking processes that give rise rise to individuals and considers in turn how these processes have evolved.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

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).

Revue de presse

"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)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224050648
• ISBN 13: 9780224050647
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible