Robin Dunbar

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Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, specialising in primate behaviour. He is best known for formulating Dunbar's number.

Publications (Books):

Dunbar. 1984. Reproductive Decisions: An Economic Analysis of Gelada Baboon Social Strategies. Princeton University Press

Dunbar. 1988. Primate Social Systems. Chapman Hall and Yale University Press

Dunbar. 1995. The Trouble with Science. London: Faber and Faber

Dunbar (ed.). 1995. Human Reproductive Decisions. Macmillan

Dunbar. 1996. Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language. London: Faber and Faber

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

Dunbar & Barrett. 2000. Cousins. BBC Worldwide: London

Cowlishaw & Dunbar. 2000. Primate Conservation Biology. University of Chicago Press

Barrett, Dunbar & Lycett. 2002. Human Evolutionary Psychology. London: Palgrave

Dunbar, Barrett & Lycett. 2005. An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology. Oxford: One World Books

Dunbar. 2004. The Human Story. London: Faber and Faber

[edit] External links

• Dunbar's research areas at the Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioural Ecology Research Group, University of Liverpool