Synchrony as an adaptive mechanism for large-scale human social bonding

Humans have developed a number of specific mechanisms that allow us to maintain much larger social networks than would be expected given our brain size. For our primate cousins, social bonding is primarily supported using grooming, and the bonding effect this produces is primarily mechanistically un...

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Main Authors: Launay, J, Tarr, B, Dunbar, R
Format: Journal article
Published: Blackwell Verlag 2016