Author: Prof. Robin Dunbar
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: language, evolution, gossip, grooming
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0674363361
ISBN-13: 9780674363366

What Dunbar suggests--and what his research confirms--is that humans developed language to serve the purpose that grooming served, but far more efficiently. From the nit-picking of chimpanzees to our chats at coffee breaks, from neuroscience to paleoanthropology, this book offers a provocative view of what makes humans human. 5 illustrations.

Author: Prof. Robin Dunbar
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: science, trouble
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0674910192
ISBN-13: 9780674910195

In The Trouble with Science, Robin Dunbar asks whether science really is unique to Western culture, even to humankind. He suggests that our "trouble with science"--our inability to grasp how it works, our suspiciousness of its successes--may lie in the fact that evolution has left our minds better able to cope with day-to-day social interaction than with the complexities of the external world.

Author: Robin Dunbar
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Keywords: story, human
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-05-19
List price: $11.65
ISBN-10: 0571223036
ISBN-13: 9780571223039

A wonderfully accessible, up-to-the-minute account of human evolution by ’one of the most respected evolutionary psychologists in Britain’ (Guardian). Of the dozen or so hominid species once in existence, why are we the only one to have survived? What is it that sets us so firmly apart from all the other creatures with whom we share the planet? How and when did that separation come about?

Author: Robin Dunbar
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Pod
Keywords: culture, evolution
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-04-29
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0748610766
ISBN-13: 9780748610761

This book explores the ways in which contemporary evolutionary thinking might inform the study of the peculiarly human phenomenon of symbolic culture, including language, ritual, religion, religion and art. It draws together contributions from biologists, linguists, anthropologists and archaeologists in order to establish common ground where collaboration and interaction will be especially productive and challenging in the study of those fundamental aspects of our biology that makes us human. * Multidisciplinary * An evolutionary approach to culture

Authors:Guy Cowlishaw, Robin I. M. Dunbar,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: biology, conservation, primate
Number of Pages: 498
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0226116379
ISBN-13: 9780226116372

From the snub-nosed monkeys of China to the mountain gorillas of central Africa, our closest nonhuman relatives are in critical danger worldwide. A recent report, for example, warns that nearly 20 percent of the world’s primates may go extinct within the next ten or twenty years. In this book Guy Cowlishaw and Robin Dunbar integrate cutting-edge theoretical advances with practical management priorities to give scientists and policymakers the tools they need to help keep these species from disappearing forever.Primate Conservation Biology begins with detailed overviews of the diversity, l

Authors:Robin Dunbar, Chris Knight,
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: overview, scientific, historical, culture, evolution
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813527317
ISBN-13: 9780813527314

This book explores the ways in which contemporary evolutionary thinking might inform the study of the peculiarly human phenomenon of symbolic culture, including language, ritual, religion, religion and art. It draws together contributions from biologists, linguists, anthropologists and archaeologists in order to establish common ground where collaboration and interaction will be especially productive and challenging in the study of those fundamental aspects of our biology that makes us human. * Multidisciplinary * An evolutionary approach to culture

Authors:Louise Barrett, Robin Dunbar, John Lycett,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: psychology, evolutionary, human
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2002-01-28
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0691096228
ISBN-13: 9780691096223

Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a dark hut for five days a month? Why are young children good at learning language but not sharing? Over the past decade, psychologists and behavioral ecologists have been finding answers to such seemingly unrelated questions by applying an evolutionary perspective to the study of human behavior and psychology. Human Evolutionary Psychology is a comprehensive, balanced, and readable introduction to this burgeoning fi