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Dunbar’s number and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas

Saved by Sarah Drinkwater

“Dunbar’s number” is a theoretical cognitive limit on the number of stable social relationships humans can maintain at one time. According to Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, humans have the cognitive capacity to keep track of somewhere around 150 close personal connections. Beyond this limited circle, we start treating people less like
... See morethe number of meaningful friends is surprisingly limited,