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#604 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Story Of Human Friendship

Modern Wisdom

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Farming and the End of the World

Group size is almost always to do with protection from raiding it's in that the farming bit is simply the way of provisioning. If you if you've got 500 people a thousand people living together you very quickly exhaust the natural resources used by hunter-gatherers, he says. "It means you're just being pushed to go further and further and further out" He adds: 'At some point it just becomes impossible and the whole system will collapse'

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