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Why cartoons make (some of) us smile

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Dunbar RIM. and Stirling-Middleton E., (2024), Humor

Four errors and a fallacy: pitfalls for the unwary in comparative brain analyses.

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Dunbar RIM. and Shultz S., (2023), Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc, 98, 1278 - 1309

Fractal structure of human and primate social networks optimizes information flow

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West BJ. et al, (2023), Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 479

The stability of transient relationships.

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Hidd VV. et al, (2023), Sci Rep, 13

The Evolutionary Role of Dance: Group Bonding But Not Prosocial Altruism

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Tarr B. and Dunbar RIM., (2023), Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

The origins and function of musical performance.

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Dunbar RIM., (2023), Front Psychol, 14

The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression

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Tsomokos DI. and Dunbar RIM., (2023), Religion, Brain and Behavior

Why Did Doctrinal Religions First Appear in the Northern Subtropical Zone?

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Dunbar RIM., (2023), Evolutionary Human Sciences

Sociability in a non-captive macaque population is associated with beneficial gut bacteria

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BURNET P. et al, (2022), Frontiers in Microbiology

Sociability in a non-captive macaque population is associated with beneficial gut bacteria

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Johnson K. et al, (2022), Frontiers in Microbiology, 13

Sociability in a non-captive macaque population is associated with beneficial gut bacteria

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DUNBAR R., (2022), Frontiers in Microbiology

Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era

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DUNBAR R., (2022), Nature Human Behaviour

Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era

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DUNBAR R., (2022), Nature Human Behaviour

Laughter and its role in the evolution of human social bonding

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DUNBAR R., (2022), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Managing the stresses of group-living in the transition to village life

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DUNBAR R., (2022), Evolutionary Human Science

Communicative roots of complex sociality and cognition: Neuropsychological mechanisms underpinning the processing of social information

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DUNBAR R., (2022), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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