- 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.
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