John Paul Scott Author & Editor

John Paul Scott received a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Chicago under Sewall Wright and devoted his subsequent career to the study of heredity and the development of social behaviour. For twenty years he directed the research program on genetics and social behaviour at the Jackson laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Afterwards he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford and is currently Regents Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Scott was instrumental in the founding of the Animal Behavior Society and was a co-founders and first president of the International Society for Research on Aggression. He served as president of the International Society for Development Psychobiology and as president of the Behaviour Genetics Association from which he received the 1987 Dobzhansky Award for Eminent Research. Scott has written or edited nine previous books, including Animal Behavior, Aggression, Genetics and the Social Behavior of the Dog (with J.L. Fuller), and Critical Periods.