Robin Dunbar
Author of Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
About the Author
Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College. He is an elected Fellow of the British Academy and was co-Director of the British Academy's Centenary Research Project. He is known for the social brain hypothesis, the show more gossip theory of language evolution, and Dunbar's Number (the limit on the number of relationships that we can manage). show less
Image credit: Robin Dunbar. Photo courtesy Festival della Scienza/Cirone-Musi.
Works by Robin Dunbar
How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks (2010) 148 copies
Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man: A Joint Discussion Meeting of the Royal Society and the… (1996) 6 copies
Impact of global warming on the distribution and survival of the gelada baboon: a modelling approach 1 copy
The Social Brain Hypothesis 1 copy
Primate Social Systems 1 copy
Associated Works
Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution (2001) — Contributor — 83 copies
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- Canonical name
- Dunbar, Robin
- Legal name
- Dunbar, Robin Ian MacDonald
- Birthdate
- 1947-06-28
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
UK - Birthplace
- Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
- Education
- Magdalen College School, Brackley
Magdalen College, University of Oxford (BA|1969)
University of Bristol (Ph.D|1974) - Occupations
- anthropologist
evolutionary psychologist - Organizations
- University of Oxford
University of Liverpool
University College London
University of Cambridge - Awards and honors
- Fellow, British Academy (1998)
Huxley Memorial Medal (2012)
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