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Robin I. M. Dunbar
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 610
Citations - 52721
Robin I. M. Dunbar is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Gelada. The author has an hindex of 111, co-authored 586 publications receiving 47498 citations. Previous affiliations of Robin I. M. Dunbar include British Academy & Aalto University.
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The social brain hypothesis
TL;DR: Conventional wisdom over the past 160 years in the cognitive and neurosciences has assumed that brains evolved to process factual information about the world, and attention has therefore been focused on such features as pattern recognition, color vision, and speech perception.
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Neocortex size as a constraint on group size in primates
TL;DR: It appears that, among primates, large groups are created by welding together sets of smaller grooming cliques, and species will only be able to invade habitats that require larger groups than their current limit if they evolve larger neocortices.
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Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in humans
TL;DR: It is suggested that the evolution of large groups in the human lineage depended on developing a more efficient method for time-sharing the processes of social bonding and that language uniquely fulfills this requirement.
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Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language
TL;DR: The Scars of Evolution Bibliography Index as discussed by the authors is a collection of articles about the evolution of the human brain and its relationships with other organisms, including the importance of being honest and being honest.
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Evolution in the Social Brain
TL;DR: It is suggested that it may have been the particular demands of the more intense forms of pairbonding that was the critical factor that triggered this evolutionary development.