Sizes of permanent campsite communities reflect constraints on natural human communities
Both small-scale human societies and personal social networks have a characteristic hierarchical structure with successively inclusive layers of 15, 50, 150, 500 and 1500 individuals. It has been suggested that these values represent a set of natural social attractors or ‘sweet spots’ in organisat...
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University of Chicago Press
2017
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