Robin Dunbar defending the future of science at the famous Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London, where any member of the public is, by tradition, allowed to say anything they like, no matter how ...

Many of us are aware of the claim that humans can maintain no more than 150 friendships. That figure is called “Dunbar’s number” after the evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar, who first introduced ...

Exactly 30 years ago, I was pondering a graph of primate group sizes plotted against the size of their brains: the larger the brain, the larger the group size. I was curious to know what group size ...

Romantic love is often regarded as the most important partnership one can have. But in the mid-1990s, when pop-rock group The Rembrandts released the now-famous “Friends” theme song “I’ll Be There For ...

In the intricate dance of human connection, Dunbar’s number has long been a guiding principle—a psychological threshold, delimiting the number of stable social relationships one can maintain.

In an entertaining and informative new work, evolutionary psychologist and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford, Dunbar (Evolutionary Psychology) investigates ...

One of the subtle joys of a psychologist's career is to describe the limits of cognition. Psychologists love to declare that the mind is capable of great things, but only up to a point. For any given ...