HOW MANY FRIENDS DOES ONE PERSON NEED?: DUNBAR’S NUMBER AND OTHER EVOLUTIONARY QUIRKS
Book ID/图书代码： 04560009B34224
English Summary/英文概要： Why do men talk, women gossip, and which is better for you? When is it good to be tall and why is monogamy a drain on the brain? And why should you suspect someone who has more than 150 friends on Facebook? 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.
We are the product of our evolutionary history and this history colours our everyday lives – from why we kiss to how religious we are. Dunbar 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 为什么男人喜欢侃侃而谈，而女人喜欢说长道短？大家都喜欢高个子，难道他们真的具有遗传的优势吗？在微博上粉丝超过150个的人，为什么值得怀疑？人类学家邓巴教授展开了前所未有的科学实验，揭示了人类遥远的过去如何影响我们现在的种种行为，这些新发现足以撼动我们对这个世界的一些看法。(DB)
Awards/获奖情况：‘Writing that is dizzyingly multi-disciplinary but shows great generosity to the ordinary reader.’---衛 報
About the Author/作者介绍： 罗宾·邓巴现为英国牛津大学进化人类学教授，Magdalen学院研究员。他的主要研究领域是社会遗传学。他于1998年当选为英国针会科学院的成员。 他已经出版的图书包括《科学的烦恼》（TheTrouble with Science），《仪容，八卦与语言的进化》（GROOMING GOSSIP AND the EvolutionofLanguage）和《人类的故事》（The HumanStory）。最后一本书更是被《星期臼泰晤士报》称为是“冒着最新研究和新成果的热气”，《新科学家》认为此书“强劲有力且发人深省”。
Robin Dunbar is currently Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His principal research interest is the evolution of sociality. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998. His books include The Trouble with Science (1995), ‘an eloquent riposte to the anti-science lobby’ (Sunday Times), and Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language. His most recent book, The Human Story (2004), was described as ‘fizzing with recent research and new theories’ in the Sunday Times and ‘punchy and provocative’ by the New Scientist.
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