Robin Dunbar
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Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College. He is an elected Fellow of the British Academy and was co-Director of the British Academy's Centenary Research Project. He is known for the social brain hypothesis, the toon meer gossip theory of language evolution, and Dunbar's Number (the limit on the number of relationships that we can manage). toon minder
Fotografie: Robin Dunbar. Photo courtesy Festival della Scienza/Cirone-Musi.
Werken van Robin Dunbar
How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks (2010) 147 exemplaren
Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man: A Joint Discussion Meeting of the Royal Society and the… (1996) 6 exemplaren
Reproductive decisions : an economic analysis of gelada baboon social strategies (1984) 5 exemplaren
Impact of global warming on the distribution and survival of the gelada baboon: a modelling approach 1 exemplaar
The Social Brain Hypothesis 1 exemplaar
SOCIAL NETWORK SIZE IN HUMANS 1 exemplaar
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Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution (2001) — Medewerker — 83 exemplaren
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- Dunbar, Robin
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- Dunbar, Robin Ian MacDonald
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- 1947-06-28
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- Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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- Magdalen College School, Brackley
Magdalen College, University of Oxford (BA|1969)
University of Bristol (Ph.D|1974) - Beroepen
- anthropologist
evolutionary psychologist - Organisaties
- University of Oxford
University of Liverpool
University College London
University of Cambridge - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Fellow, British Academy (1998)
Huxley Memorial Medal (2012)
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This project certainly is meritorious. But there is a clear but. The researchers went out of their way to show that human evolution can be explained by looking exclusively to the social domain. They took the "social brain hypothesis" as a starting point: our human functioning is mainly driven by the social interaction with fellow humans. The ever larger and more complex group of humanoids and humans evoked new and more far-reaching mental processes that help explain the growth of the brain content of human species. In short: the ability to deal with larger and more complex social networks is the key to understanding human evolution.
Honestly: the research results are not entirely convincing. There is no doubt that social interaction plays an important role in human evolution; but to declare that this is the most important explanation is yet another example of scientific reductionism, not sustained by clear evidence, only by several hypotheses. More on that in my History profile on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3204620834… (meer)