Discrete hierarchical organization of social group sizes
The ‘social brain hypothesis’ for the evolution of large brains in primates has led to evidence for the coevolution of neocortical size and social group sizes, suggesting that there is a cognitive constraint on group size that depends, in some way, on the volume of neural material available for proc...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Royal Society
2005
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