Professor Robin Dunbar FBA

Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Anthropology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1998
Subjects
Anthropology, Psychology

10-Minute Talks: The nature of friendship

7 Apr 2021 Professor Robin Dunbar FBA

Professor Robin Dunbar FBA discusses what friendship is and why it is important for our psychological and physical health.

Current post

Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, University of Oxford

Past appointments

University of Liverpool British Academy Research Professor, University of Liverpool

2004 -

University of Liverpool Professor of Evolutionary Psychology

1994 -

University of Liverpool Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, University of Liverpool

1994 - 2004

University College London Lecturer, Professor of Anthropology

1987 - 1994

University of Cambridge Advanced Research Fellow

1977 - 1982

Publications

Primate social systems 1988

Evolution of social behaviour patterns in primates and man (_PBA_ 88, 1996)

Grooming, gossip and the evolution of language 1995

Human evolutionary psychology 2002

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Professor Harri Englund FBA

African-language political and moral thought; the historical-linguistic translation of freedom, equality and human rights; the racial and humanitarian politics of Christian missions in 19th-century Africa

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Professor Dawn Chatty FBA

Middle Eastern ethnography particularly prolonged forced migration, and forced settlement of mobile indigenous peoples as well as biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and the politics of pastoral livelihoods

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Professor Elizabeth Spelke FBA

Cognitive psychology and cognitive development, with special focus on the nature and origins of knowledge of material objects, animate beings, number, geometry, and the social world

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