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Design for a Life: How Behavior and Personality Develop

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Explores how behavior and personality develop through an examination of various factors, such as biology, genetics, and psychology.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

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Patrick Bateson

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September 29, 2017
A classic book on behavioral development that avoids common reductionist traps while being rigorous. Bateson will be missed !
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March 12, 2020
A very readable popular account of the developmentalist approach to evolution by natural selection from a hugely influential academic biologist.
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