Paul Martin

Patrick Bateson

Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson

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

Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

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.

Essays in Honour of Robert Hinde

The Development and Integration of Behaviour

Professor Sir Patrick Bateson

Twenty-one specially-commissioned articles provide a clear picture of the current state of thinking about mate choice. Brings together modern thinking on the various functions of mate choice and its role in evolution.

Mate Choice

P.P.G. Bateson

P.H. Klopfer

N.S. Thompson

The current volume focuses on behavioral similarities and differences within individual animals, larger populations, and species as a whole. Research from ecological, social ontogenetic, physiological, and other perspectives is presented to explicate specific behaviors, as well as to provide a more profound understanding of how behavior work influences thought about evolutionary processes.

Volume 10: Behavior and Evolution

Perspectives in Ethology

Dennis C. Turner

Unravels the mysteries of cat behaviour for the general reader and specialist alike.

Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson

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