Category: Technology
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Estimating the maximum size of the socially cohesive group
The Dunbar number (Dunbar’s Number, n.d.), proposed by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, posits that humans have a cognitive limit to the number of stable social relationships they can maintain, estimated to be around 150 individuals. This theory is based on the size of the neocortex, the part of the brain associated with social and cognitive…
