The Dunbar’s number

Happening to read about mammal history, learnt today that the neocortex is unique to that class of creatures. And the size of the neocortex has in turn been correlated to social interactions … Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, suggests that for humans the number of people one can entertain stable social relationships is around 150. This has probably some implications on how we can best organise our enterprises … More at wikipedia’s entry.

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