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Definición de Dunbar's number en inglés:

Dunbar's number

Saltos de línea: Dun¦bar's num¦ber
(also Dunbar number)


  • A theoretical limit to the number of people with whom any individual is able to sustain a stable or meaningful social relationship (usually considered to be roughly 150): even in the age of Facebook, the number of friends with whom you keep in touch is likely to be less than Dunbar’s number
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    • Second, to summarize, Dunbar's Number says that we can only have a fixed number of relationships in life.
    • Lately, Dunbar's number has been taken as a mean size for online networks and groups.


early 21st century: named after Robin Dunbar (b. 1947), the British anthropologist and psychologist who proposed the theory in the 1990s.

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