English Explanatory Dictionary

Dunbar's number

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 250, with a commonly used value of 150.

Word forms

Dunbar's number Dunbar number

Etymology

Proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size.

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