Bateson

[ beyt-suhn ]

noun

1. William, 1861–1926, English biologist and geneticist.

Example Sentences

David Bateson, who is 49 and from Bedfordshire, was diagnosed with skin cancer after going to his GP about a bleeding spot on his scalp.

From BBC

More concretely, it focuses on the intertwined lives of two cultural anthropologists — Mead and Gregory Bateson, who were married for 14 years — and the extraordinary circle of social scientists, psychoanalysts, artists and spies who gathered around them from the 1930s through the ’70s.

From Los Angeles Times

Having myself written a biography of Bateson about 40 years ago, I approached Breen’s book with a naive confidence that there wasn’t much left for me to learn — that, having met many of its principal characters, I had understood Mead and her cohort in all their flawed promise.

From Los Angeles Times

In fact, I came away with both wonder at what Breen had unearthed and a twinge of envy that I had missed so much of Bateson’s life in particular, hidden away at the time in archives at UC Santa Cruz that have since been unsealed.

From Los Angeles Times

What were Mead’s and Bateson’s roles in this story?

From Los Angeles Times