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10 Nov 09

Dunbar’s Number and the Future of Communications

  • The asymmetrical and casual nature of social networks is allowing humans to engage in what Robin Dunbar has termed “social grooming” with increasingly larger groups — without investing increasingly larger amounts of time.
  • Dunbar argues that the number of people with whom humans can maintain a relationship is a function of neocortical size.
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