Word: bateson
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DIED. Gregory Bateson, 76, English anthropologist, psychologist and free-ranging investigator of ideas; of a respiratory illness; in San Francisco. Bateson contributed to anthropology with studies of primitive cultures in collaboration with his first wife, the late Margaret Mead; to psychology with his formulation of the "double-bind" theory to explain schizophrenia; to cybernetics, of which he was one of the founders; and to the study of animal communications. Convinced that a unity underlies the diversity and change in living things, he asked in his latest book, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, "What pattern connects the crab...