Robin Dunbar

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1947 –

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Who is Robin Dunbar?

Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar 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".

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Born
Jun 28, 1947
Liverpool
Also known as
  • R. I. M. Dunbar
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Bristol
  • Magdalen College, Oxford

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on July 23, 2013

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