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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

Dr. Robin Dunbar - Legendary Evolutionary Behavioral Scientist (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_910)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Science, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Robin is a professor emeritus of evolutionary psychology of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research group in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books including: Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language (1997) Human Story (2004) How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks (2010) Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships (2021) How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures (2022) _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on X, please visit my bio at https://x.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on November 3, 2025 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1930: https://youtu.be/pffErr-6pOw _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense.  _______________________________________

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0:00.0

I'm delighted to report that I have joined as a scholar, the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi.

0:10.8

The center offers educational opportunities, speakers, internship, and reading groups for the University of Mississippi community.

0:18.9

It is named in honor of the United States founding document

0:23.2

which constitutes the nation as a political community

0:27.0

and expresses fundamental principles of American freedom,

0:31.4

including in the recognition of the importance of Judeo-Christian values

0:35.5

in shaping American exceptionalism.

0:39.3

Dedicated to the academic and open-minded exploration of these principles, the Center exists

0:45.3

to encourage exploration into the many facets of freedom. It will sponsor a speaker series

0:51.3

and an interdisciplinary faculty research team. If you'd like to learn more

0:56.3

about the center, please visit Olmiss. That's O-E-M-I-S-S dot EDU slash independence slash.

1:06.9

Hi everybody. This is Gottsad. I've been doing this for many, many years. I've had many

1:11.6

unbelievable guests on my show. Few have turned me into a little school girl with giddiness

1:17.9

as much as the next gentleman I'll be speaking to right now. Professor Robin Dunbar,

1:23.1

how are you doing, sir? I'm very good. I'm worried about turning you into into whatever it was you're

1:29.8

going to be a goody a goody school girl yeah well let me tell you why i mean i'm gonna come to a few

1:37.1

i prepared a few books and this is not meant to be promotion of my work i get enough exposure in

1:44.0

life but it's it's

1:45.0

really an homage to you my first book ever the evolutionary basis of

1:50.4

consumption Robin Dunbar is in there when we're talking about the you know

1:55.5

Machiavellianism social intelligence hypothesis the evolutionary roots of

2:00.2

gossip all topics that you cover,

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