![]() ![]() He was named Gregory after Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk who founded the modern science of genetics. He was the third and youngest son of (Caroline) Beatrice Durham and the distinguished geneticist William Bateson. His association with the editor and author Stewart Brand helped widen his influence.īateson was born in Grantchester in Cambridgeshire, England, on. ![]() He was interested in the relationship of these fields to epistemology. He was one of the original members of the core group of the Macy conferences in Cybernetics (1941–1960), and the later set on Group Processes (1954–1960), where he represented the social and behavioral sciences. In Palo Alto, California, Bateson and colleagues developed the double-bind theory of schizophrenia.īateson's interest in systems theory forms a thread running through his work. ![]() His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979). Gregory Bateson ( – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. ![]()
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