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Noun Concept
Categories: Human evolution, Evolutionary psychology, Articles with short description, Primatology, Sociological theories
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Dunbar's number  Dunbar number  Dunbars number  Dunbar’s number  Monkey-sphere
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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. Wikipedia
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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. Wikipedia
A suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 250, with a commonly used value of 150. Wiktionary
IS A
number
theory
FACET OF
group size
NAMED AFTER
Robin Dunbar
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Dunbar's Number, Dunbar number, Dunbars number, Dunbar’s number, Monkey-sphere, monkeysphere, Rule of 150, social brain hypothesis, the social brain hypothesis

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