# Robin Dunbar **Entity class:** Person node **Domain:** Evolutionary psychology / anthropology / primate sociality **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition **Robin Dunbar** is an evolutionary psychologist and anthropologist whose work connects primate social organization, social bonding, group size, language, ritual, and the evolution of religion. ## Corpus Role [[wiki/How Religion Evolved|How Religion Evolved]] provides the immediate route into the corpus. [[blog/20261007 - The Prayers of Primates|The Prayers of Primates]] draws on Dunbar's account of collective singing, dancing, feasting, and synchronized activity as scalable bonding practices related to the social function of [[wiki/Social Grooming|Social Grooming]]. ## Evidence Boundary Dunbar's work offers an evolutionary account of affiliation and ritual. It does not by itself establish that every form of prayer is a dominance display or that religion has a single origin. ## Relationships - [[wiki/Primatology|Primatology]] - [[wiki/Human Animality|Human Animality]] - [[wiki/Social Grooming|Social Grooming]] - [[wiki/How Religion Evolved|How Religion Evolved]]