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==Academic career== Dunbar's academic and research career includes the [[University of Bristol]],<ref name="dominance">{{Cite journal | last1 = Dunbar | first1 = R. I. M. | last2 = Dunbar | first2 = E. P. | doi = 10.1038/266351a0 | title = Dominance and reproductive success among female gelada baboons | journal = Nature | volume = 266 | issue = 5600 | pages = 351–352 | year = 1977 | pmid = 404565| bibcode = 1977Natur.266..351D | s2cid = 4159540 }}</ref> [[University of Cambridge]] from 1977 until 1982, and [[University College London]] from 1987 until 1994. In 1994, Dunbar became Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the [[University of Liverpool]], but left Liverpool in 2007, to take up the post of Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name=britac/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/evolpsyc/dunbar.html |title=Prof. Robin Dunbar FBA |publisher=liv.ac.uk |access-date=2007-12-02 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071104143754/http://www.liv.ac.uk/evolpsyc/dunbar.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-11-04}}</ref> In 2012, Dunbar migrated over to the Department of Experimental Psychology at the [[University of Oxford]], after receiving a competitive research grant from the [[European Research Council]]. Dunbar was formerly co-director of the [[British Academy]] Centenary Research Project (BACRP) "From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain" and was involved in the BACRP "Identifying the Universal Religious Repertoire". Digital versions of selected published articles authored or co-authored by him are available from the [[University of Liverpool]] Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioural Ecology Research Group. In 2015, Dunbar was awarded the Huxley Memorial Medal—established in 1900 in memory of [[Thomas Henry Huxley]]—for services to anthropology by the council of the [[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]], the highest honour at the disposal of the RAI. Dunbar is also a [[Humanists UK]] Distinguished Supporter of Humanism.
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