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Robin and Dunbar
" Gossip has also been identified by Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary biologist, as aiding social bonding in large groups.
* Robin Dunbar
In 2011 the list included Nicholas Humphrey, Tim Ingold and Steve Rayner, whereas in 2012 Robin Dunbar, Kevin Warwick and Margaret Boden were featured.
Costner's roles include Lt. John J. Dunbar in the film Dances with Wolves, Jim Garrison in JFK, Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, Robin Hood in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Crash Davis in Bull Durham, Robert " Butch " Haynes in A Perfect World, Frank Farmer in The Bodyguard, Lt. Cmdr.
Robin Dunbar suggests a link between primate grooming and the development of human language.
According to a study by Robin Dunbar at the University of Liverpool, primate brain size is determined by social group size.
Gossip, according to Robin Dunbar, does for group-living humans what manual grooming does for other primates — it allows individuals to service their relationships and so maintain their alliances on the basis of the principle, if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
Hall in establishing a centre for primate studies, extending socio-ecological principles to primates, supervising doctoral projects and leading field research in Ethiopia on the Gelada Baboon and in Morocco on the Barbary Macaque, subsequently developed by Robin Dunbar and John Deag respectively.
Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar ( born June 28, 1947 ) is a British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist and a specialist in primate behaviour.
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The social brain hypothesis was proposed by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who argues that human intelligence did not evolve primarily as a means to solve ecological problems, but rather intelligence evolved as a means of surviving and reproducing in large and complex social groups.
Dunbar's number was first proposed by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who theorized that " this limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size, and that this in turn limits group size ... the limit imposed by neocortical processing capacity is simply on the number of individuals with whom a stable inter-personal relationship can be maintained.
* Robin Dunbar: How Many Friends Does One Person Need?

Robin and size
At 13 – 14 cm long and 10 – 18 g weight, the Red-flanked Bluetail is similar in size and weight to the Common Redstart and slightly smaller ( particularly with a slimmer build ) than the European Robin.
The Thrush Nightingale is similar in size to the European Robin.
The Bluethroat is similar in size to the European Robin at 13 – 14 cm.
The Whinchat is similar in size to its relative the European Robin ( Erithacus rubecula ), 12 – 14 cm long and 13 – 26 g weight.
The Canary Islands Stonechat is intermediate in appearance between the European Stonechat and the Whinchat ; its body size and shape reminiscent of a lithe European Robin.
From left to right: Kingda Ka, El Toro ( Six Flags Great Adventure ) | El Toro, Bizarro ( Six Flags Great Adventure ) | Bizarro ( visible in full size picture ), Rolling Thunder ( roller coaster ) | Rolling Thunder, the now defunct The Great American Scream Machine ( New Jersey ) | Great American Scream Machine, Superman: Ultimate Flight, the now defunct Batman & Robin: The Chiller and Stuntman's Freefall, and operating Nitro ( roller coaster ) | Nitro.
As a size comparison, an average adult is slightly larger than an American Robin ( Turdus migratorius ).
In relative size to other owls they are close to the size of an American Robin.
It is similar in size to the widespread American Robin, though the Varied is on average shorter with a heavier, more robust build.
The Indian Blue Robin is similar in size to the related Bluethroat at 15 cm long.
Despite its size, by being a three-wheeler with an official mass below, the Robin can be driven by holders of a B1 category driving licence in the United Kingdom, and registered and taxed at motorcycle rates, which gives a saving of 55 GBP per year over a conventional car.

Robin and group
According to Robin Blackburn, " The decline of CND by late 1961, however, deprived the New Left of much of its momentum as a movement, and uncertainties and divisions within the Board of the journal led to the transfer of the Review to a younger and less experienced group in 1962.
The Robin belongs to a group of mainly insectivorous birds that have been variously assigned to the thrushes or " flycatchers ", depending on how these groups were perceived taxonomically.
Yet another group of Old World Flycatchers, this time from Africa and Asia is the genus Copsychus ; its members are known as Magpie-robins, one of which, the Oriental Magpie Robin ( C. saularis ), is the national bird of Bangladesh.
The outlaw group resisting a powerful and corrupt regime is an idea familiar from Robin Hood and beyond.
* " Robin ( The Hooded Man )", hit song by the Irish group Clannad
John suc ­ ceded in eluding the group by shooting at them, killing a soldier by the name of Robin Raney.
The superhero group the Teen Titans ( first appearance 1964 ) was originally made up entirely of sidekicks: Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wonder Girl, and Speedy.
) Although Robin is best known as Batman's sidekick, the Robins have also been members of the superhero group the Teen Titans-with the original Robin, Dick Grayson, as a founding member and the group's leader and with Tim Drake as the team leader.
This rivalry eventually prompted Robin to leave the group and begin a solo career.
The children's television programme Sounds Exciting, broadcast in 1968, was a musical education series culminating in a final " whodunit " called Dead in Tune with Robin Ray's original story set to the music of Herbert Chappell performed by a chamber group of players from the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra.
Well-known 1970s-era power trios include the Canadian progressive rock group Rush ; The American band out of Texas ZZ Top, the British heavy metal band Motörhead ; The Jam ; Robin Trower and The Police.
The group was launched on 21 November 1985, with Bragg, Weller, Strawberry Switchblade and Kirsty MacColl invited to a reception at the Palace of Westminster hosted by Labour MP Robin Cook.
His brothers Barry and Robin ceased performing as a group for a time, but later decided to perform occasionally under the Bee Gees banner before twin brother Robin died rather suddenly of liver and kidney failure on 20 May 2012.
In 1968, they recorded " First of May " with lead vocals by Barry, The flip side of the song was " Lamplight " on which Robin Gibb sang the lead, Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood chose " First of May " to be the A-side, No other songs released on the album Odessa, and Robin quit the group.
In 1969, after Robin quit the group, they recorded the songs for their seventh album Cucumber Castle, all of the songs sung by Barry, except the song " My Thing " ( the song was performed by Maurice Gibb ).
Also, according to the Directors episode, Gilliam came up with the scene where Robin Williams and Amanda Plummer meet during a huge waltz in the middle of Grand Central Terminal, because he felt the scene LaGravenese had written ( which had a large group of people in a crowded subway listen to a homeless black woman sing with a beautiful voice ) wasn't working.
Traditionally, the Turdidae included the small Old World species, like the Nightingale and European Robin in the subfamily Saxicolini, but most authorities now place this group in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
In 1979, the company paid $ 1 million for Sphinx, a book by Coma author Robin Cook, and purchased The Wolfen, the story of a group of supernatural wolves advancing on New York City.
The next year he was with a group called Butterscotch Sundays, playing summer festivals, and after that formed a band called Robin and the Hoods.
Some Yippies, including Robin Morgan, Nancy Kurshan, Sharon Krebs and Judy Gumbo, were active in the guerrilla-theater feminist group W. I. T. C. H.

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