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RIM Dunbar

RIM Dunbar is currently head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford

Biography

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 a visiting professor at Aalto University. He is best known for formulating Dunbar's number,[5] a measurement of the "cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships. Education: Dunbar was educated at Magdalen College School, Brackley. He then went onto Magdalen College, Oxford, where his teachers included Nico Tinbergen and completed his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Philosophy in 1969. Dunbar then went onto 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. Awards and honours 2014, Huxley Memorial Medal, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1998, Elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) 1994, ad hominem Chair, Psychology, University of Liverpool

Research Interest

Anthropology Evolutionary Psychology

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