from day 04/06/2012

Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?

This post is part of a Webinar debating Dunbar's Number. Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 When I heard about Kanai et al.'s paper [1] announcing a correlation between grey matter density in several brain areas and online social network size, I immediately updated my Facebook status, and touted the ...

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A debate on Robin Dunbar’s social brain hypothesis

This post is part of a Webinar debating Dunbar's Number. Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 Some months ago, an article by Jan de Ruiter, Gavin Weston and Stephen Lyon appeared in American Anthropologist. The paper's target is Robin Dunbar's Social brain hypothesis. The hypothesis comes in many ...

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