Dunbar’s number

Robin Dunbar vs. Pop Dunbar

This post is part of a Webinar debating Dunbar's Number. Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 While reading the stimulating critique of Robin Dunbar's social brain hypothesis recently published by Jan de

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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

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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 Anthropolo

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