Ocupation: Anthropologist
Life: May 9, 1904 - July 4, 1980
Birthday: May 9
Death: July 4
Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of what problem these theories attempt to solve. They learn but little of the evolution of evolutionary theory.
source: Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.343, University of Chicago Press
topic: Deep Understanding, Theory Of Evolution, Long