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Robin Dunbar

1947 - Today

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Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar (born 28 June 1947) is a British biological anthropologist, evolutionary psychologist, and specialist in primate behaviour. Dunbar is professor emeritus of evolutionary psychology of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. He is best known for formulating Dunbar's number, a measurement of the "cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robin Dunbar is the 203rd most popular psychologist (up from 209th in 2019), the 3,657th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,751st in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Robin Dunbar ranks 203 out of 235. Before him are C. George Boeree, Michael Tomasello, Théodore Flournoy, Louis Leon Thurstone, Judith Rich Harris, and Jaak Panksepp. After him are Nancy Chodorow, Endel Tulving, Christina Maslach, Sandra Bem, Marie Jahoda, and Karl Lashley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Robin Dunbar ranks 504. Before him are Peter Cosgrove, Afanasijs Kuzmins, Klaus Dibiasi, Mike Burton, Alexander Tikhonov, and Dave Davies. After him are Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Yuri Matiyasevich, Elena Belova, Bob Evans, Nurlan Balgimbayev, and Terry Griffiths.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robin Dunbar ranks 3,658 out of 8,785. Before him are Isaac Watts (1674), William Hopkins (1793), Diana Dors (1931), Dave Davies (1947), Harry Patch (1898), and Herbert Giles (1845). After him are Joe Alwyn (1991), Thomas Digges (1546), Billy Bremner (1942), Siouxsie Sioux (1957), Joseph Cook (1860), and Talulah Riley (1985).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Robin Dunbar ranks 15. Before him are William McDougall (1871), Frederic Bartlett (1886), Ernest Jones (1879), Brenda Milner (1918), Ronald Fairbairn (1889), and Anne Treisman (1935). After him are Richard Lynn (1930), Alan Baddeley (1934), Simon Baron-Cohen (1958), Cyril Burt (1883), and Richard Wiseman (1966).

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