Dunbar's number en · PROPN
Etymology
Proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size.
Meanings
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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.
Dunbar's number might have remained a curiosity but for the fact that subsequent research found that this number has arisen repeatedly, across the planet, in terms of actual human social group sizes.
2020, Michael Wooldridge, The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
Forms
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