- Robin Dunbar
Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar (born
June 28 ,1947 ,Liverpool )cite web |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/archive.asp?fellowsID=1242 |title=British Academy Fellows Archive |publisher=The British Academy |accessdate=2007-12-02] cite web
url=http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/contentviewarticle.asp?article=2225 |title=Professor Robin Dunbar FBA |publisher=humanism.org
accessdate=2007-12-02] is a British anthropologist andevolution ary biologist, specialising inprimate behaviour. He is best known for formulatingDunbar's number , roughly 150, a measurement of the "cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships". [cite web |url=http://www.scottweisbrod.com/index.php/?p=92 |title=Dunbar’s Number |author=Malcom Gladwell |date=June 17, 2007 |publisher=scottweisbrod |accessdate=2007-12-02]Dunbar, son of an engineer, received his early education at
Northamptonshire , thenMagdalen College, Oxford , where his teachers includedNico Tinbergen andRichard Dawkins . He spent two years as a free lance science writer.Dunbar's academic and research career includes the
University of Bristol , [cite web |url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v266/n5600/abs/266351a0.html |title=Dominance and reproductive success among female gelada baboons |publication=Nature Publishing Group |date=March 24, 1977 |accessdate=2007-12-03]University of Cambridge from 1977 until 1982, andUniversity College London from 1987 until 1994. In 1994, Dunbar became Professor of Evolutionary Psychology atUniversity of Liverpool , but he left Liverpool in 2007 to take up the post of Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology,University of Oxford . [cite web
url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/evolpsyc/dunbar.html |title=Prof. Robin Dunbar FBA |publisher=liv.ac.uk |accessdate=2007-12-02]Professor Dunbar is a director of the
British Academy Centenary Research Project (BACRP) "From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain" and is involved in the planned BACRP "Identifying the Universal Religious Repertoire".Digital versions of selected published articles authored or co-authored by him are available from the University of Liverpool Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioural Ecology Research Group.
Honors
* 1998, Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)
* 1994, "ad hominem" Chair, Psychology, University of Liverpool [cite web |url=http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:0Lguj1bOUlUJ:www.liv.ac.uk/commsec/pdfs/emeritus_professors,_chairs_and_honorary_graduates.pdf+%22Robin+Ian+MacDonald+Dunbar%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us |title=Faculty of Science |publisher=liv.ac.uk |accessdate=2007-12-02]References
elected publications
* Dunbar. 1984. "Reproductive Decisions: An Economic Analysis of Gelada Baboon Social Strategies". Princeton University Press ISBN 0691083606
* Dunbar. 1988. "Primate Social Systems". Chapman Hall and Yale University Press ISBN 0801420873
* Dunbar. 1996. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/DUNTRX.html "The Trouble with Science"] .Harvard University Press . ISBN 0674910192
* Dunbar (ed.). 1995. "Human Reproductive Decisions". Macmillan ISBN 0333620518
* Dunbar. 1997. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/DUNGRO.html "Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language'] .Harvard University Press . ISBN 0674363345
* Runciman, Maynard Smith, & Dunbar (eds.). 1997. "Evolution of Culture and Language in Primates and Humans". Oxford University Press.
* Dunbar, Knight, & Power (eds.). 1999. "The Evolution of Culture". Edinburgh University Press ISBN 0813527309
* Dunbar & Barrett. 2000. "Cousins". BBC Worldwide: London ISBN 0789471558
* Cowlishaw & Dunbar. 2000. "Primate Conservation Biology". University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226116360
* Barrett, Dunbar & Lycett. 2002. "Human Evolutionary Psychology". London: Palgrave ISBN 069109621X
* Dunbar, Barrett & Lycett. 2005. "Evolutionary Psychology, a Beginner's Guide". Oxford: One World Books ISBN 1851683569
* Dunbar. 2004. "The Human Story". London: Faber and Faber ISBN 0571191339External links
* [http://www.liv.ac.uk/evolpsyc/dunbar.html Research profile] at the Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioural Ecology Research Group, University of Liverpool.
* [http://www.liv.ac.uk/www/evolpsyc/publications.html Publications list] for the Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioural Ecology Research Group.
* " [http://www.liv.ac.uk/evolpsyc/Evol_Anthrop_6.pdf The Social Brain Hypothesis] " by Dunbar (1998).
* [http://www.hbes.com/ The Human Behaviour and Evolution Society]
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