Communities and Dubar's Number

Mopsos - Communities of practice and Dunbar's number

Dunbar is an anthropologist at the University College of London who hypothesized that there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, and predicted that 150 is the "mean group size" for humans.

The full article discusses the "magic number" of 150 and smaller quantities that probably make more sense for active networks.

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