Robin Dunbar
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Robin Dunbar portrait by Cirone-Musi via Festival della Scienza
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| Born | Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar 28 June 1947 Liverpool |
| Residence | Oxford |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields |
Anthropology Evolutionary Psychology |
| Institutions |
University of Bristol University of Cambridge University of Oxford University College London University of Liverpool |
| Alma mater |
University of Bristol (PhD) Magdalen College, Oxford (BA, MA) |
| Thesis | The social organisation of the gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada) (1974) |
| Known for |
Dunbar's number Baboon research |
| Notable awards |
FBA (1998) FRAI PhD (1974) |
| Spouse | Eva Patricia Dunbar (née Melvin) |
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Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar (born 28 June 1947) 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 a visiting professor at Aalto University. 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".
Dunbar, son of an engineer, was educated at Magdalen College School, Brackley. He then went on to Magdalen College, Oxford, where his teachers included Nico Tinbergen and completed his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Philosophy in 1969. Dunbar then went on to the Department of Psychology of the University of Bristol and completed his PhD in 1974 on the social organisation of the gelada baboon Theropithecus gelada.
He spent two years as a freelance science writer.
Dunbar's academic and research career includes the University of Bristol,University of Cambridge from 1977 until 1982, and University College London from 1987 until 1994. 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.
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