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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Main Authors: Kordsmeyer, T, Mac Carron, P, Dunbar, R
Format: Journal article
Published: University of Chicago Press 2017