Prof. Robin Dunbar Books
Tree Of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us About Human Social Evolution
By Craig B. Stanford, Charles Snowdon, Richard Wrangham, Craig B. Stanford, Robin Dunbar, Richard Byrne, Anne Pusey, W.C. McGrew, Karen B. Strier, F. B. M. De Waal, Frans B.M. De Waal, Anne E Pusey, Prof. Robin Dunbar
How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives—the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates—offer tantalizing clues....
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
By R. I. M. Dunbar, Prof. Robin Dunbar
Apes and monkeys, humanity's closest kin, differ from other animals in the intensity of their social relationships. All their grooming is not so much about hygiene as it is about cementing bonds, m...
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