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Did you know that you have just 150 friends, acquaintances and relatives? This is the natural size for villages all over the world, now known as ‘Dunbar’s Number’. Our evolutionary history colours our experiences of everyday life – from the number of friends we have to how religious we are.

‘Dunbar’s Number’ defines the feasible boundaries of social life as two sides; the social side from our mother and the emotional side from our father. Why many women see the world in four to five different colours, but men only ever have the conventional red, green and blue? And why facial symmetry has everything to do with voter choices in elections?

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Professor Robin Dunbar, the renowned evolutionary anthropologist visits RSA to explain how the distant past underpins all of our current behaviours and how we can best utilise that knowledge.

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