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Optimising human community sizes

We examine community longevity as a function of group size in three historical, small scale agricultural samples. Community sizes of 50, 150 and 500 are disproportionately more common than other sizes; they also have greater longevity. These values mirror the natural layerings in hunter-gatherer soc...

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Autores principales: Dunbar, Robin I.M., Sosis, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5756541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29333060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.11.001