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Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
Robin Dunbar
ISBN: 9780571253425
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Faber and Faber
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We are the product of our evolutionary history and this history colours our everyday lives - from why we kiss to how religious we are. In How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Robin Dunbar explains how the distant past underpins our current behaviour through the groundbreaking experiments that have changed the thinking of evolutionary biologists forever. He explains phenomena such as why 'Dunbar's Number' (150) is the maximum number of acquaintances you can have…
We are the product of our evolutionary history and this history colors our everyday lives - from why we kiss to how religious we are. In "How Many Friends Does One Person Need?", Robin Dunbar explains how the distant past underpins our current behavior, through the groundbreaking experiments that have changed the thinking of evolutionary biologists forever. He explains phenomena such as why 'Dunbar's Number' (150) is the maximum number of acquaintances you can have, why all babies are born premature and the science behind lonely hearts columns. Stimulating, provocative and highly enjoyable, this fascinating book is essential for understanding why humans behave as they do - what it is to be human.
| ISBN | 0571253423 | | Pages | 320 | | ISBN13 | 9780571253425
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 384 | | Publisher | Faber and Faber | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Faber and Faber | | Height (mm) | 205 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 134 | | Publication date | 04 Feb 2010 | | Spine width (mm) | 28 | | DEWEY | 155.7 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | 1 | | 1 | | In the Beginning | | 3 | | 2 | | The Monogamous Brain | | 11 | | 3 | | Dunbar's Number | | 21 | | 4 | | Kith and Kin | | 35 | | 5 | | The Ancestors that Still Haunt Us | | 47 | | 6 | | Bonds that Bind | | 61 | | 7 | | Why Gossip is Good for You | | 73 | | 8 | | Scars of Evolution | | 85 | | 9 | | Who'd Mess with Evolution? | | 99 | | 10 | | The Darwin Wars | | 113 | | 11 | | So Near, and Yet So Far | | 127 | | 12 | | Farewell, Cousins | | 143 | | 13 | | Stone Age Psychology | | 161 | | 14 | | Natural Minds | | 175 | | 15 | | How to Join the Culture Club | | 191 | | 16 | | Be Smart ... Live Longer | | 203 | | 17 | | Beautiful Science | | 215 | | 18 | | Are You Lonesome Tonight? | | 227 | | 19 | | Eskimos Rub Noses | | 243 | | 20 | | Your Cheating Heart | | 253 | | 21 | | Morality on the Brain | | 267 | | 22 | | How Evolution Found God | | 279 | | | | Index | | 293 |
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