How Many Friends Does One Person Need?
Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
$37.18
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2011
Summary
We are the product of our evolutionary history, and this history colours our everyday lives, from why we kiss to how religious we are. In How Many Friends Does One Person Need?, Robin Dunbar explains how the distant past underpins our current behaviour, through groundbreaking experiments that have changed the thinking of evolutionary biologists forever.
He explains phenomena such as why ‘Dunbar’s Number’ (150) is the maximum number of acquaintances you can have, why all babie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571253432 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571253431 |
| Author: | Professor Robin Dunbar, Robin Dunbar |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 20mm |
About The Author
Professor Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar is currently Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His principal research interest is the evolution of sociality. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998. His books include The Trouble with Science (1995) and Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language. His most recent book, The Human Story, (2004).
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