Robin Dunbar





Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar (born 28 June 1947) is a British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist and a specialist in primate behaviour. He is currently head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and is best known for formulating Dunbar's number, a measurement of the "cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships". ^ a b "DUNBAR, Prof. Robin Ian MacDonald". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press. (subscription required) ^ Opie, C.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Dunbar, R. I. M.; Shultz, S. (2013). "Male infanticide leads to social monogamy in primates". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1307903110. ^ Dunbar, R. I. M. (1992). "Neocortex size as a constraint on group size in primates". Journal of Human Evolution 22 (6): 469–493. doi:10.1016/0047-2484(92)90081-J. ^ Hill, R. A.; Dunbar, R. I. M. (2003). "Social network size in humans". Human Nature 14: 53. doi:10.1007/s12110-003-1016-y. ^ a b Dunbar, Robin I. M. (2010). How many friends does one person need?: Dunbar's number and other evolutionary quirks. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-25342-3. ^ Barrett, L.; Dunbar, R. I. M.; Dunbar, P. (1995). "Mother-infant contact as contingent behaviour in gelada baboons". Animal Behaviour 49 (3): 805. doi:10.1016/0003-3472(95)80211-8. ^ Dunbar, R. I. M. (1980). "Determinants and evolutionary consequences of dominance among female gelada baboons". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 7 (4): 253–265. doi:10.1007/BF00300665. ^ ^ ^ "British Academy Fellows Archive". British Academy. Retrieved 2007-12-02. ^ "Professor Robin Dunbar FBA". British Humanist Association. Retrieved 2007-12-02. ^ Shultz, S.; Dunbar, R. (2010). "Encephalization is not a universal macroevolutionary phenomenon in mammals but is associated with sociality". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (50): 21582–21586. doi:10.1073/pnas.1005246107. PMC 3003036. PMID 21098277. ^ Hill, R. A.; Bentley, R. A.; Dunbar, R. I. M. (2008). "Network scaling reveals consistent fractal pattern in hierarchical mammalian societies". Biology Letters 4 (6): 748–751. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0393. PMC 2614163. PMID 18765349. ^ Dunbar, R. I. M. (2007). "Male and female brain evolution is subject to contrasting selection pressures in primates". BMC Biology 5: 21. doi:10.1186/1741-7007-5-21. PMC 1876205. PMID 17493267. ^ Dunbar, R. I. M. (1995). "The price of being at the top". Nature 373 (6509): 22–23. doi:10.1038/373022a0. PMID 7800033. ^ Dunbar, R. (1997). "The monkeys' defence alliance". Nature 386 (6625): 555–550. doi:10.1038/386555a0. PMID 9121575. ^ Dunbar, R. I. M.; Pawlowski, B.; Lipowicz, A. (2000). "Tall men have more reproductive success". Nature 403 (6766): 156. doi:10.1038/35003107. PMID 10646589. ^ Dunbar, R. I. M. (2001). "Evolutionary biology: What's in a baboon's behind?". Nature 410 (6825): 158. doi:10.1038/35065773. PMID 11258375. ^ Dunbar, R. (2003). "PSYCHOLOGY: Evolution of the Social Brain". Science 302 (5648): 1160–1161. doi:10.1126/science.1092116. PMID 14615522. ^ Dunbar, R. I. M.; Shultz, S. (2007). "Evolution in the Social Brain". Science 317 (5843): 1344–1347. doi:10.1126/science.1145463. PMID 17823343. ^ Shultz, S.; Dunbar, R. (2010). "Encephalization is not a universal macroevolutionary phenomenon in mammals but is associated with sociality". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (50): 21582–21586. doi:10.1073/pnas.1005246107. PMC 3003036. PMID 21098277. ^ Malcolm Gladwell (17 June 2007). "Dunbar’s Number". scottweisbrod. Retrieved 2007-12-02. ^ Robin Dunbar in Google Scholar ^ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search ^ Robin Dunbar from the Scopus bibliographic database ^ Professor Robin Dunbar at the Internet Movie Database Continue Reading »



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