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ithildin ([personal profile] ithildin) wrote2010-01-30 11:45 am

150

"Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Oxford University, developed a theory in the 1990s dubbed Dunbar's Number. The theory contends that the human brain is only capable of managing relationships--staying in contact at least once per year and knowing how friends relate to others--with about 150 people."

Sorry, Facebook friends: Our brains can't keep up