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Dunbar’s Number (Hardcover)
David Shankland; Contributions by Robin Dunbar, Simon Dein, Clive Gamble, Esther Goody, …
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Dunbar’s Number, as the limit on the size of both social groups
and personal social networks, has achieved something close to
iconic status and is one of the most influential concepts to have
emerged out of anthropology in the last quarter century. It is
widely cited throughout the social sciences,archaeology, psychology
and network science,and its reverberations have been felt as far
afield as the worlds of business organization and social-networking
sites, whose design it has come to underpin.Named after its
originator, Robin Dunbar, whose career has spanned biological
anthropology, zoology and evolutionary psychology, it stands
testament to the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to
human behaviour. In this collection Dunbar joins authors from a
wide range of disciplines to explore Dunbar’s Number’s
conceptual origins, as well as the evidence supporting it, and to
reflect on its wider implications in archaeology, social
anthropology and medicine.
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