Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar FBA FRAI (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. 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”.
Books in order of publication:
Reproductive Decisions: An Economic Analysis of Gelada Baboon Social Strategies – 1984
Demography and Reproduction. In Primate Societies – 1987
Primate Social Systems – 1988
The Trouble with Science – 1996
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language – 1997
The Evolution of Culture – 1999
Cousins – 2000
Primate Conservation Biology – 2000
Human Evolutionary Psychology – 2002
The Human Story – 2004
Evolutionary Psychology, a Beginner’s Guide – 2005
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? – 2010
Human Evolution – 2014
Human Evolution: Our Brains and Behavior – 2016
