Editing Robin Dunbar (section)

==Education==

Dunbar, the son of an engineer, was educated at [[Magdalen College School, Brackley]].<ref name="c423">{{cite news | last=Brown | first=Andrew | title=Science to watch people by | work=The Guardian | date=15 May 2003 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/may/15/scienceinterviews.academicexperts | access-date=17 April 2025}}</ref> He went on to study at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]],<ref name="whoswho"/> where his teachers included [[Niko Tinbergen]]; he completed his [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[Psychology]] and Philosophy in 1969.<ref name="whoswho" /> Dunbar then went on to the Department of Psychology of the [[University of Bristol]] and completed his [[PhD]] in 1974 on the [[Social organization|social organisation]] of the [[gelada]], ''Theropithecus gelada'', a monkey that is a close relative to baboons.<ref name="dunbarphd">{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Robin Ian MacDonald|last=Dunbar |title=The social organisation of the gelada monkey (Theropithecus gelada) |publisher=University of Bristol |date=1974 |url=http://www.theses.com|author-link=Robin Dunbar |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

He spent two years as a freelance science writer.<ref name=humanism/> Dunbar told BBC Radio interviewer [[Jim Al-Khalili]] in ''[[The Life Scientific]]'' in 2019 that he "got his first real job" only at the age of 40.<ref>"[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0006zt6 The Life Scientific]" interview, BBC Radio Four, 23 July 2019.</ref>