Patrick Bateson

Paul Martin

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

Refresh your brows with the cool breeze of reason that is Bateson and Martin's overview... fascinating

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

Bateson and Martin have delivered what others have claimed to provide: a solid, signposted road out of the trench war between nature and nurture

With a clarity of style that belies the complexity of the subject, Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin conduct us through the strategic highways adn tactical byways of individual life history

How Behaviour Develops

How and why does each of us grow up to be the person we are? What role do genes play in shaping our behaviour and personalities? Are our characters fixed, or can we change as adults? How does early experience affect our sexual preferences? 
 
Design for a Life explains the science of behavioural development - the biological and psychological processes that build a unique adult from a fertilised egg. Instead of the conventional opposition between nature (genes) and nurture (environment), Design for a Life offers a new approach that synthesises biology and psychology. It explores the developmental cooking processes that give rise to individuals, and considers in turn how these processes have evolved.

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If you have time to read only one book about human development, read this one

This thoughtful and engaging book should be on everyone's reading list

Refresh your brows with the cool breeze of reason that is Bateson and Martin's overview... fascinating

If you have time to read only one book about human development, read this one

This thoughtful and engaging book should be on everyone's reading list

Refresh your brows with the cool breeze of reason that is Bateson and Martin's overview... fascinating

If you have time to read only one book about human development, read this one

This thoughtful and engaging book should be on everyone's reading list

Refresh your brows with the cool breeze of reason that is Bateson and Martin's overview... fascinating

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