Dunbar's number

English Alternative forms en Dunbar number Etymology Proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. Proper noun A suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 250, with a commonly used value of 150. en 2020 https://books.google.com/books?id=nnmtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT152&dq=%22Dunbar%27s+number%22&hl=&cd=12&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Dunbar's%20number%22&f=false Michael Wooldridge The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI Penguin UK 9780241333914 Dunbar's number might have remained a curiosity but for the fact that subsequent research found that this number has arisen repeatedly, across the planet, in terms of actual human social group sizes. en eponyms