Angus John Bateman Explained

Birth Name:Angus John Bateman
Angus Bateman
Birth Date:1919
Nationality:English
Fields:Genetics
Thesis Url:https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/55080704?style=html
Thesis Year:1946
Thesis Title:An investigation into various factors affecting crossing between varieties of crop plants
Known For:Bateman's principle[1]

Angus John Bateman (1919–1996) was an English geneticist. He is most notable for his 1948 study[2] of sexual selection in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) which established Bateman's principle.

Bateman was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain during the Lysenko affair. He was an anti-Lysenkoist within the Party whilst writing in defense of Lysenko for non-Party audiences.[3]

Career

Bateman received his B.Sc from King's College London in 1940, and later received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from the same institution. In 1942 he moved to Cyril Darlington's Genetics Department at the John Innes Horticultural Institute in Merton Park.[4] [5] [6] Bateman was an acquaintance of Ronald Fisher and critically discussed the manuscript of his 1948 paper with him.

Bateman later moved to the Paterson Institute in Manchester and worked on mutagenicity.[7]


Notes and References

  1. Brown. Gillian R.. Laland. Kevin N.. Mulder. Monique Borgerhoff. Bateman's principles and human sex roles. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 24. 6. 2009. 297–304. 0169-5347. 10.1016/j.tree.2009.02.005. 19403194. 3096780 .
  2. Bateman. Angus J.. 1948. Intra-Sexual Selection in Drosophila. Journal of Heredity. 2. Pt. 3. 349–68. 10.1038/hdy.1948.21. 18103134. free.
  3. Paul. Diane. 1983. A War on Two Fronts: J. B. S. Haldane and the Response to Lysenkoism in Britain. Journal of the History of Biology. 16. 1. 1–37. 4330841. 10.1007/BF00186674. 11611245. 29713118 .
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20111115214604/http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/5/831.full The Darwin-Bateman Paradigm in Historical Context
  5. Book: Milam, Erika Lorraine, 1974-. Looking for a few good males : female choice in evolutionary biology. 2010. Johns Hopkins University Press. 978-0-8018-9817-4. Baltimore. 607552555.
  6. Web site: 1910s Timeline - John Innes Centre. Yumpu.com. yumpu.com. en. 2020-01-30.
  7. Bateman. A. J.. 1976-01-01. The mutagenic action of urethane. Mutation Research/Reviews in Genetic Toxicology. en. 39. 1. 75–95. 10.1016/0165-1110(76)90013-0. 827702. 0165-1110.

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