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A critical review of Dunbar's social brain hypothesis Acedo-Carmona, Cristina Gomila Benejam, Antoni Edad e inteligencia Cerebro Dunbar’s social brain hypothesis constitutes an influential position among those that relate the evolution of human cognition and sociality. In this work, we first present the essentials of the theory and discuss the paleoanthropological and social evidence claimed to support it. We also point out its shortcomings, which have to do with the general strategy of finding linear relations among different traits, the lack of attention to the mental capacities that make human social life possible, and the diversity of social relations and structures that take place. We put forward our way of complementing Dunbar’s approach by focusing on the role of trust in cementing society and explaining diversity. 2024-09-25T07:53:03Z 2024-09-25T07:53:03Z 2014 2016 journal article Acedo-Carmona, C. and A. Gomila. 2016. "A critical review of Dunbar's social brain hypothesis". Revista Internacional de Sociología 74(3): e037. doi https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2016.74.3.037 https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33150 https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2016.74.3.037 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados (IESA-CSIC)