Robin Dunbar debates meat eating for Intelligence Squared

Robin Dunbar

Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Oxford University and author of The Human Story and How Many Friends Does One Person Need?

Robin Dunbar is 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. 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. His most recent book is How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and other Evolutionary Quirks, in which he explains how the distant past underpins our current behaviour.