Angus John Bateman

Angus Bateman
Born
Angus John Bateman

1919
Died1996 (aged 76–77)
NationalityEnglish
Known forBateman's principle[1]
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
ThesisAn investigation into various factors affecting crossing between varieties of crop plants (1946)

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]

  1. ^ Brown, Gillian R.; Laland, Kevin N.; Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff (2009). "Bateman's principles and human sex roles". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 24 (6): 297–304. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.02.005. ISSN 0169-5347. PMC 3096780. PMID 19403194.
  2. ^ Bateman, Angus J. (1948). "Intra-Sexual Selection in Drosophila". Journal of Heredity. 2 (Pt. 3): 349–68. doi:10.1038/hdy.1948.21. PMID 18103134.
  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. doi:10.1007/BF00186674. JSTOR 4330841. PMID 11611245. S2CID 29713118.