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Robin Dunbar: Circles of Friendship

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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How Can You Have Hair for a Friend?

How can you have hair for a friend? I was hoping you'd ask that if i ed ha ita ha ha haha, a haha. Let me say first of allan explaind ha background to that. When we first discovered this, what we had found was a series of circles that went five, 15, 15, hundred and 50. And then we know it goes on beyond that, because there's the lair at about 500, which is acquaintances, and a lair at 15 hundred, which is faces we can put names to. A lair, it turns out, at five thousand, which is Faces we've seen before, but we don't know who most of those are.

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