The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, showed that men and women were equally likely to lose their closest friends when they started a new relationship. 这项研究由牛津大学人类认知与进化学研究协会会长罗宾邓巴发起,研究显示无论男性还是女性,开始一段新恋情都会使他们失去亲密的朋友。
Dunbar's team used an internet-based questionnaire to quiz 428 women and 112 men about their relationships. 邓巴的团队通过网上发起问卷,调查了428位女性和112位男性的个人关系。
Robin Dunbar's book, The Science of Love and Betrayal, is perhaps surprisingly easier to get to grips with. 相比之下,罗宾.邓巴(RobinDunbar)的书《爱与背叛的科学》更容易理解,这一点或许出人意料。
Speaking at the British Science Festival in Birmingham, Professor Dunbar said: This was a surprise for us. We hadn't expected it. 在伯明翰举行的英国科学节上,邓巴说:研究结果令人意外,我们从未料想过。
Back in 1992, Robin Dunbar an anthropologist and psychologist now based at the University of Oxford published a fascinating addendum to that idea. 早在1992年,现任职于牛津大学(Oxford)的人类学家和心理学家罗宾•邓巴(RobinDunbar)就发表了一篇非常有趣的文章,对这一思想进行了补充。
But Dunbar thinks there is a more important evolutionary twist at work. 但邓巴认为,这其中有一种更为重要的进化因素在起作用。
Nearly every human culture in history exhibits this complex sense of longing, Dr Dunbar observes. 据邓巴观察,从古至今,几乎每个时期的人类文明都显示出了这种渴望爱情的复杂情感。
Dunbar read his poems to audiences in the United States and in England. 邓巴在美国与英国各地公开朗诵他的诗作。
Dunbar says getting back to her online critics is just good business sense. 邓巴说回到她的在线评论家只是良好的商业意识。
Dunbar believes that humans have evolved to create more efficient ways of bonding, such as dancing, storytelling and shared laughter. 邓巴认为,人类在进化过程中创造了更高效率的亲近方式,例如跳舞、讲故事以及一起大笑。
In earlier research, Professor Dunbar trawled through lonely hearts columns in newspapers and magazines to find what qualities people looked for in a partner. 在较早期的研究中,敦巴教授通过报纸和杂志中的“孤独的心”专栏搜罗资料,以发现人们期待配偶身上具有哪些特质。
After two weeks in Dunbar, Bothwell and I rode back to Edinburgh. 在唐巴尔呆了两个星期后,我和博思韦尔驱马回到爱丁堡。
Now in a certain way, this is still a rationalization that Tony Morrison sees in the American slave-owning tradition, but it's not so much in the case of this Dunbar a freedom from work. 从某种意义上说,托妮·莫里森认为,美国对蓄奴传统还有一个辩护,但不是邓巴这个例子中的,不用工作。
In recent months, Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford university, has been inflicting pain on volunteers as part of an experiment in cognitive development. 最近几个月,作为认知发展实验的一部分,牛津大学(Oxford)进化心理学教授罗宾邓巴(RobinDunbar)一直在对志愿者施加痛苦。
"Taller men are reproductively more successful than shorter men, indicating there is an active selection for stature in male partners by women," said Dr Robin dunbar, professor of evolutionary psychology at Liverpool university. “高个子男人比矮个子男人在繁育后代方面更为成功,这表明女人在选择男性配偶时非常注重其身高,”利物浦大学进化心理学教授罗宾敦巴博士如是说。
In the morning we arrived at Dunbar castle. 早晨我们到了唐巴尔城堡。
After the programs ended, Robin Dunbar tested the volunteers to see how they reacted to pain. 节目结束之后,罗宾·邓巴测试了志愿者们对疼痛的身体反应。
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Professor Dunbar tested volunteers to see how their bodies reacted to funny things, and to some nice, but not necessarily funny things. 邓巴教授通过测试一些志愿者们了解他们对一些趣事和对一些未必有趣的好事各自的身体反应。
But Dunbar is one of a growing band of so-called evolutionary psychologists who are starting to take this blended approach. 但越来越多的所谓进化心理学家开始采取这种混合方法,邓巴就是其中之一。
This false world is but transitory ( William Dunbar). 这个虚幻的世界只是昙花一现(威廉邓巴)。
This is nurse Dunbar down at central middle school? 我是中心中学的dunbar护士?
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Professor Dunbar also believes that laughter was important for our early ancestors thousands of years ago. 邓巴教授还认为,在几千年以前,笑对于我们早期的祖先们是非常重要的。
When he returned from England, Dunbar took a job as an assistant librarian at the Library of Congress. 当他从英格兰回到美国时,邓巴在国会图书管理查找一个助理馆员的工作。
Dunbar's new band was Blue Whale and had a sole holdover from the drummer's previous combo, Tommy Eyre. 邓巴的新乐队是蓝鲸,并有唯一之前的鼓手推荐的。
Dr Marlow found that the average number of "friends" in a Facebook network is120, consistent with Dr Dunbar's hypothesis, and that women tend to have somewhat more than men. 马洛博士发现,Facebook社区中人均“好友”数量为120,这恰与邓巴假设吻合;而且,女性的好友数量往往多于男性。