Early Life and Education
Dunbar, son of an engineer, received his early education at Magdalen College School, Brackley. He then went onto Magdalen College, Oxford, where his teachers included Nico Tinbergen and completed his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Philosophy in 1969. Dunbar then went onto the Department of Psychology of the University of Bristol and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology in 1973.
He spent two years as a freelance science writer.
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