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Thank you very much for all your comments and queries. I realise from reading the comments that I haven’t been able to articulate the fundamental reason for my even beginning to look at this area.
And that is this:
The original Dunbar number was based on some understanding of the relationship between neocortical volume and group size [...]

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Apologies to Phil Collins, and heartfelt thanks to LaughingSquid, someone I now read regularly.
We’re at the edge of the traditional mid-January reality-distortion field, traditional because it happens before every Steve Jobs keynote at MacWorld. Not that Mr Jobs needs any help, but the distortion tends to be amplified by the rumour mill that precedes [...]

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