Fractal structure of human and primate social networks optimizes information flow
Primate and human social groups exhibit a fractal structure that has a very limited range of preferred layer sizes, with groups of 5, 15, 50 and (in humans) 150 and 500 predominating. In non-human primates, this same fractal distribution is also observed in the distribution of species mean group siz...
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Language: | English |
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Royal Society
2023
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