Dr. David Bainbridge

Parkour raises some social issues that can’t be ignored: legal matters, urban environment smash up, teaming-up perceived as causing social distress to elder citizen or misunderstandings between crews and City Council authorities. Teenager’s psychologists address topics related to urban group dynamics and metropolitan modern rite of passage. We talked to a Cambridge biologist, Dr. David Bainbridge, who will relieve the parents’ sense of guilt, offering scientific explanation of teenager’s brain synapses transitory black-out.
 
Dr. David Bainbridge at University of Cambridge (UK)

David Robert James Bainbridge is reproductive biologist and veterinary anatomist at the University of Cambridge and a science writer. Bainbridge expanded his interests in the evolutionary basis of human biology and behavior with the publication of Teenagers: A Natural History – a ‘zoological’ look at the vagaries of human adolescence in which he argued that teenagers are the pinnacle of human existence.

Website: Dr. David Bainbridge, University of Cambridge

 

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