Processing power limits social group size: computational evidence for the cognitive costs of sociality

Sociality is primarily a coordination problem. However, the social (or communication) complexity hypothesis suggests that the kinds of information that can be acquired and processed may limit the size and/or complexity of social groups that a species can maintain. We use an agent-based model to test...

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Main Authors: Dávid-Barrett, T, Dunbar, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Royal Society 2013