#4002: Ophelia Benson — 06/30  at  04:22 PM
Robin Dunbar talked about his new book on this subject on Radio 4's Start the Week recently.


I talked about it at B&W here.


I also begged Robin Dunbar to write something - anything - for us, and he very kindly said he would. He also said nice things about B&W.


I haven't read his new book but I really recommend an earlier one, The Problem with Science. There's a little about it here.

Trackback: More on Machiavellian monkeys Tracked on: Majikthise (66.151.149.25) at 2004 07 03 13:20:55
A reader asks why this study matters, given that brain size doesn't correlate with intelligence. Carl Zummer of The Loom explains. Gross brain size doesn't correlate very well with intelligence, either within a species, or across species. However, the ratio