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  • Friends

    Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

    by Robin Dunbar ...
    **'Fascinating...**In essence, the number and quality of our friendships may have a bigger influence on our happiness, health and mortality risk than anything else in life save for giving up smoking' Guardian, Book of the DayFriends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most surprising fact to emerge out of the medical literature over the last decade or so has been that the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • How Religion Evolved

    And Why It Endures

    by Robin Dunbar ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologistWhen did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured?Every society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. In How Religion Evolved, evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar tracks ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Science of Love and Betrayal

    by Robin Dunbar ...
    Falling in love is one of the strangest things we can do - and one of the things that makes us uniquely human. But what happens to our brains when our eyes meet across a crowded room? Why do we kiss each other, forget our friends, seek a 'good sense of humour' in Lonely Hearts adverts and try (and fail) to be monogamous? How are our romantic relationships different from our relationships with ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Science of Love

    by Robin Dunbar ...
    A scientific exploration of some of humanity's most puzzling questions: What is love? Why do we fall in (and out) of love? And why would we have evolved to feel something so weird, with so many downsides?Whether you live for Valentine's Day or are the type to forget your wedding anniversary, love is, quite simply, part of being human. In The Science of Love, renowned evolutionary anthropologist ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language

    by Robin Dunbar ...
    Did mankind evolve unusually large brains simply in order to gossip? Primates differ from other animals by the intensity of their social relationships, by the amount of time they spend grooming one another. Not just a matter of hygiene, grooming is all about cementing bonds, making friends and influencing your fellow ape. Early humans, in their characteristic large groups of 150 or so, would have ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Evolutionary Psychology

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Robin Dunbar, John Lycett, Louise Barrett ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Evolutionary Psychology: A Beginner’s Guide is a uniquely accessible yet comprehensive guide to the study of the effects of evolutionary theory on human behaviour. Written specifically for the general reader, and for entry-level students, it covers all the most important elements of this interdisciplinary subject, from the role of evolution in our selection of partner, to the influence of genetics ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Human Evolution

    A Pelican Introduction

    by Robin Dunbar ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    What makes us human?How did we develop language, thought and culture?Why did we survive, and other human species fail?The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the sweep of human history when there has been only one human species. How did this extraordinary proliferation of species come about - and then go extinct? And why did we emerge such intellectual giants? The tale of our origin... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Trouble with Science

    by Robin Dunbar ...
    The 'trouble' with science began in 1632, when Galileo demolished the belief that the earth is the centre of the universe. Yet despite the bewildering success of the scientific revolution, many continue to hanker after the cosy certainties of a man-centred universe, and young people increasingly turn away from science.In The Trouble with Science, Professor Robin Dunbar launches a vigorous counter ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • How Many Friends Does One Person Need?

    Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks

    by Robin Dunbar ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Human Story

    by Robin Dunbar ...
    A fascinating account of the latest thinking on human evolution, by 'one of the most respected evolutionary psychologists in Britain'.For scientists studying evolution, the past decade has seen astonishing advances across many disciplines - discoveries which have revolutionised scientific thinking and turned upside down our understanding of who we are. The Human Story brings together these threads ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Evolution

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Robin Dunbar ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior-who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures-and greatly impacts modern advancements in medicine and conservation biology. Perhaps its most important claim for science is its ability ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Thinking Big

    How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind

    by Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, John Gowlett ...
    A closer look at genealogy, incorporating how biological, anthropological, and technical factors can influence human livesWe are at a pivotal moment in understanding our remote ancestry and its implications for how we live today. The barriers to what we can know about our distant relatives have been falling as a result of scientific advance, such as decoding the genomes of humans and Neanderthals, ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD