Dunbar's number
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title:
Dunbar's number
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Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. This number was first proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he propos
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Suggested cognitive limit important in sociology and anthropology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
date created:
2005-09-14T18:28:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T14:02:06Z
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