biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–80)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, EC England, UK, the son of biologist William Bateson. He studied physical anthropology at Cambridge, but made his career in the USA. With Margaret Mead he was involved with the culture-and-personality movement, publishing Balinese Character in 1942. Influenced by cybernetics, he went on to study problems of communication and learning among aquatic mammals and human schizophrenics. Later works include Mind and Nature (1978). |
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