Optimising human community sizes

We examine community longevity as a function of group size in three historical, small scale agricultural samples. Community sizes of 50, 150 and 500 are disproportionately more common than other sizes; they also have greater longevity. These values mirror the natural layerings in hunter-gatherer soc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dunbar, R, Sosis, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017