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

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How Did Women Mitigate the Messing Up of Their Fertility Cycle?

How did women mitigate the messing up of their fertility cycle given that they're now talking about 400 thousand person groups living together is it simply that when you have a house and there's a little bit of land in between you and the people around you. And then secondly is it simply a case of continuing to scale what you've suggested there which is you increase the group size, cultural technologies and some social institutions to deal with it? i think so my view has come round to be all this stuff uh can be explained basically as a consequence of demography and the stresses the demography introduces into society.

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