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“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 indi
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Dunbar is an anthropologist at the University College of London, who wrote a paper on Co-Evolution Of Neocortex Size, Group Size And Language In Humans where he hypothesizes: " ... there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, that this limit is a direct function of relative neoc... See more
Christopher Allen • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
it allowed them to increase community size from a value of around 75 in their predecessors to the 120
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
more dyadic relationships
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
brain predict the size of your personal friendship circle?
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
this turns out to be closely correlated with total network size.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
estimated that there was an upper limit at around 2,000 on the number of faces we could put names to.