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Author Dunbar, R. I. M. (Robin Ian MacDonald), 1947-

Title How many friends does one person need? : Dunbar's number and other evolutionary quirks / Robin Dunbar.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  599.938 D911h 2010    ---  Available
Description vi, 302 p. ; 22 cm.
Note Includes index.
Contents In the beginning -- The monogamous brain -- Dunbar's number -- Kith and kin -- The ancestors that still haunt us -- Bonds that bind -- Why gossip is good for you -- Scars of evolution -- Who'd mess with evolution? -- The Darwin wars -- So near, and yet so far -- Farewell, cousins -- Stone age psychology -- Natural minds -- How to join the culture club -- Be smart-- live longer -- Beautiful science -- Are you lonesome tonight? -- Eskimos rub noses -- Your cheating heart -- Morality on the brain -- How evolution found God.
Subject Social psychology.
Human behavior.
Evolution.
ISBN 9780674057166 (cloth : alk. paper)
0674057163 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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