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Robin Dunbar

British evolutionary psychologist (1947-) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics

Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar is a British biological anthropologist, evolutionary psychologist, and specialist in primate behaviour. Dunbar is professor emeritus of evolutionary psychology of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford.

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Huxley Memorial Medal2015
Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Fellow of the British Academy

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He 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 1947 · age 79

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