Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar (born June 28, 1947, Liverpool)[1] [2] is a British anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, specialising in primate behaviour. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of eVolution is the third Album by eLDee, it was due to be released in 2008 A primate is a member of the biological order Primates ( Latin: "prime first rank" the group that contains Lemurs the Aye-aye He is best known for formulating Dunbar's number, roughly 150, a measurement of the "cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships". See also Dunbar (disambiguation Dunbar's number is the supposed cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable social relationships [3]
Dunbar, son of an engineer, received his early education at Northamptonshire, then Magdalen College, Oxford, where his teachers included Nico Tinbergen and Richard Dawkins. Northamptonshire (or archaically the County of Northampton; abbreviated Northants Magdalen College redirects here see also Magdalene College Cambridge Magdalen College (ˈmɔːdlɨn "maudlin" is one of the constituent Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen ( April 15, 1907 &ndash December 21, 1988) was a Dutch ethologist and Ornithologist Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941 is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and Popular science He spent two years as a free lance science writer. [2]
Dunbar's academic and research career includes the University of Bristol,[4] University of Cambridge from 1977 until 1982, and University College London from 1987 until 1994. the University (or derivatives but lower-case when referring to many universitiesor universities The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the University College London ( UCL) is a multi-faculty university institution based in the United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London In 1994, Dunbar became Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at University 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. The University of Liverpool is a University in the city of Liverpool, England. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the [5][1]
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". The British Academy is the United Kingdom 's National academy for the Humanities and the Social sciences It was established by Royal Charter
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)[2]
- 1994, ad hominem Chair, Psychology, University of Liverpool[6]
References
- ^ a b British Academy Fellows Archive. The British Academy. Retrieved on 2007-12-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire
- ^ a b c Professor Robin Dunbar FBA. humanism. org. Retrieved on 2007-12-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire
- ^ Malcom Gladwell (June 17, 2007). Dunbar’s Number. scottweisbrod. Retrieved on 2007-12-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire
- ^ Dominance and reproductive success among female gelada baboons (March 24, 1977). Retrieved on 2007-12-03. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French
- ^ Prof. Robin Dunbar FBA. liv. ac. uk. Retrieved on 2007-12-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire
- ^ Faculty of Science. liv. ac. uk. Retrieved on 2007-12-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire
Selected 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. The Trouble with Science. Harvard University Press. Harvard University Press ( HUP) is a Publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in Academic publishing. ISBN 0674910192
- Dunbar (ed. ). 1995. Human Reproductive Decisions. Macmillan ISBN 0333620518
- Dunbar. 1997. Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language'. Harvard University Press. Harvard University Press ( HUP) is a Publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in Academic publishing. 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 0571191339
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