Natasha Rego interviews the British anthropologist who first proposed the idea that humans can maintain no more than 150 ...

“You need something quite literally to stop everybody from killing everybody else out of just crossness,” said Robin Dunbar. “Somehow it’s clear that religions, all these doctrinal ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the early '90s, anthropologist Robin Dunbar proposed that a human being has the capacity to have up to 150 meaningful relationships. Dunbar did a study of human ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the early '90s, anthropologist Robin Dunbar proposed that a human being has the capacity to have up to 150 meaningful relationships. Recently, Dunbar did a study ...

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This number was first proposed in the 1990s by the British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and size of social group. The size of the brain is a ...