Humans can have more or less than 150 friends
Humans can have more or less than 150 friends A new paper questions the validity of Dunbar’s number, which places a limit on social interactions. A pair of Rhesus macaques. Dunbar's number, based on analysis of primate brains and groups, suggests a limit on social connections - but new research disputes it. Credit: Johan Lind/N You may have heard that the human brain can manage social relationships with about 150 people. Or perhaps you heard 200, or 50, or 104. Dunbar’s number, proposed by anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar in the 1990s, was derived by comparing the...
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