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EP. 53: THE POWER OF FRIENDS: ROBIN DUNBAR ON OUR MOST IMPORTANT NUMBER

Bounce! Conversations with Larry Weeks

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What's the Dunbar Number in Humans?

Human social networks fall within about hundred to 200 people, some range like that. In the max is around a hundred 50. And then you have around, what, five intimate friends. But it turns out that this hundred and 50 people you have in your social world are not kind of amorphous. It's very clun e split up into groupings. Those groupings turn out to have very distinct relationships. They look like if you look at the frequency with which people phone the members of their social network, or even see them in person or facebook them,. Then you see very clear sents of these layers emerging when you have a very small inner corps of about five who we call

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