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frequency of defections on up to 10 per cent of interactions will have little or no effect on the average number of friends an individual will have; frequencies greater than 10 per cent will have a small effect on the overall number of friends, but will mainly reduce the number of strong and medium ties,
there is something very different about primate social relationships that only a very small number of other mammals seem able to match.
Friendships depend on you investing enough time and effort in each other to keep the relationship well-oiled and functional.
Friends represent a source of help and support when we need it, as well as providing a group of people who are willing to give up their time (and perhaps even money) to socialise with us.
each individual had a distinct pattern in the way they distributed their phone calling among their friends,
there was a steady linear decline in network size (in this case, indexed by the number of friends on Facebook) from around 250 in eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds to seventy-three in the fifty-five-plus age group,
Human society as we know it – indeed, even primate society – would be impossible without it.
Prepotent responses refer to your natural tendency to grab the biggest slice of cake on the plate before anyone else gets it.
It seems that you call some people (family), and you prefer to text others (friends).
A female body plan and brain is the default in mammals. The switch over to the male phenotype is triggered by the Y chromosome stimulating the production of testosterone part way through foetal development.