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The Development and Integration of Behaviour

Essays in Honour of Robert Hinde

By: Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson

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The Development and Integration of Behaviour

Essays in Honour of Robert Hinde

By: Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson

What regularities lie behind the development and organization of behaviour in animals and humans? One theme emerging from this book is that ideas have to flow in both directions between the different levels of analysis - between the neural and behavioural levels and between the individual and the social group. Another theme is that it is not enough to identify the many factors operating in the development and integration of behaviour. The processes must also be studied directly. Bringing together work at different levels and studying behavioural dynamics require more knowledge and expertise than any one person can usually command. Links have to be made between different disciplines and specialists have to learn to work with others who speak with what at first seem to be mutually incomprehensible scientific languages. The book illustrates how this may be achieved. The themes of this book are strongly related to the approach of Robert Hinde, in whose honour the chapters were written.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521407095

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Design for a Life

How Biology and Psychology Shape Human Behavior

By: Patrick Bateson,Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,Paul Martin

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Design for a Life

How Biology and Psychology Shape Human Behavior

By: Patrick Bateson,Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,Paul Martin

Written in clear and simple language, 'Design for a Life' offers an understanding of the science that lies behind many current controversies in parenting, education, social policy and medicine.

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276

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Simon and Schuster

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0684869330

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9780684869339

Perspectives in Ethology

Volume 4 Advantages of Diversity

By: Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,Peter H. Klopfer

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Perspectives in Ethology

Volume 4 Advantages of Diversity

By: Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,Peter H. Klopfer

One of the attractive features of the great classical ethologists was their readiness to ask different kinds of questions about behavior - and to do so without muddling the answers. Niko Tinbergen, for instance, was interested in the evolution of behavior. But he also had interests in the present-day sur vival value of a behavior pattern and in the mechanisms that control it from moment to moment. Broad as his interests were, he clearly separated out the problems and recognized that questions about the history, function, control, and development of behavior require distinct approaches - even though the answers to one type of question may aid in finding answers to another. The open-minded (and clear-headed) style of ethologists like Tinbergen was based on a recognition that there are diverse ways of usefully con ducting research on behavior. This consciousness has been partially sub merged in recent years by new waves of narrowly focused enthusiasm. For instance, the study of the behavior of whole animals without recourse to lower levels of analysis, and the treatment of sociobiological theories as ex planation for how individuals develop, has meant that the relatively fragile plants of neuroethology and behavioral ontogeny have almost disappeared under the flood.

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253

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461575753

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9781461575757

Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

By: Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,Paul Martin

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Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

By: Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,Paul Martin

Examines the role of playfulness in animal and human development, highlighting its links to creativity and, in turn, to innovation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107015138

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Measuring Behaviour

An Introductory Guide

By: Paul Martin,Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson

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Measuring Behaviour

An Introductory Guide

By: Paul Martin,Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson

A clear and concise practical guide to the principles and methods of studies of behaviour.

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0521446147

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Behaviour, Development and Evolution

By: Patrick Bateson

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Behaviour, Development and Evolution

By: Patrick Bateson

The role of parents in shaping the characters of their children, the causes of violence and crime, and the roots of personal unhappiness are central to humanity. Like so many fundamental questions about human existence, these issues all relate to behavioural development. In this lucid and accessible book, eminent biologist Professor Sir Patrick Bateson suggests that the nature/nurture dichotomy we often use to think about questions of development in both humans and animals is misleading. Instead, he argues that we should pay attention to whole systems, rather than to simple causes, when trying to understand the complexity of development. In his wide-ranging approach Bateson discusses why so much behaviour appears to be well-designed. He explores issues such as ‘imprinting’ and its importance to the attachment of offspring to their parents; the mutual benefits that characterise communication between parent and offspring; the importance of play in learning how to choose and control the optimal conditions in which to thrive; and the vital function of adaptability in the interplay between development and evolution. Bateson disputes the idea that a simple link can be found between genetics and behaviour. What an individual human or animal does in its life depends on the reciprocal nature of its relationships with the world about it. This knowledge also points to ways in which an animal’s own behaviour can provide the variation that influences the subsequent course of evolution. This has relevance not only for our scientific approaches to the systems of development and evolution, but also on how humans change institutional rules that have become dysfunctional, or design public health measures when mismatches occur between themselves and their environments. It affects how we think about ourselves and our own capacity for change.

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1783742518

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9781783742516

Measuring Behaviour

An Introductory Guide

By: Paul Martin,Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson

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An Introductory Guide

By: Paul Martin,Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson

A clear and concise practical guide to the principles and methods of studies of behaviour.

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Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

By: Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,Paul Martin

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Examines the role of playfulness in animal and human development, highlighting its links to creativity and, in turn, to innovation.

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Design for a Life

How Biology and Psychology Shape Human Behavior

By: Patrick Bateson,Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,Paul Martin

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How Biology and Psychology Shape Human Behavior

By: Patrick Bateson,Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,Paul Martin

Written in clear and simple language, 'Design for a Life' offers an understanding of the science that lies behind many current controversies in parenting, education, social policy and medicine.

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Perspectives in Ethology

By: P. Bateson

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Perspectives in Ethology

By: P. Bateson

In the early days of ethology, most of the major developments were in the realm of ideas and in the framework in which animal behavior was studied. Much of the evidence was anecdotal, much of the thinking intuitive. As the subject developed, theories had to be tested, language had to become more public than it had been, and quantitative descriptions had to replace the preliminary qualitative accounts. That is the way a science develops; hard headed analysis follows soft-headed synthesis. There are limits, though, to the usefulness of this trend. The requirement to be quantitative can mean that easy measures are chosen at the expense of representing the complexly patterned nature of a phenomenon. All too easily the process of data collec tion becomes a trivial exercise in describing the obvious or the irrelevant. Editors and their referees require authors to maintain high standards of evidence and avoid undue speculation-in short, to maintain professional respectability. In the main, this process is admirable and necessary, but somewhere along the line perspective is lost and a body of knowledge, with all the preconceptions and intellectual baggage that comes with it, becomes formally established. New ideas are treated as though they were subversive agents-as indeed they often are.

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1461575699

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Plasticity, Robustness, Development and Evolution

By: Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,Peter D.- Gluckman

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Plasticity, Robustness, Development and Evolution

By: Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,Peter D.- Gluckman

The first book to clarify the relationship between plasticity and robustness in the context of development and evolution.

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1139122347

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Perspectives in Ethology

Volume 4 Advantages of Diversity

By: Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson,Peter H. Klopfer

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Volume 4 Advantages of Diversity

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The Development and Integration of Behaviour

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Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

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Measuring Behaviour

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Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

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Design for a Life

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Plasticity, Robustness, Development and Evolution

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