ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Relating size and functionality in human social networks through complexity.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Extensive empirical evidence suggests that there is a maximal number of people with whom an individual can maintain stable social relationships (the Dunbar number). We argue that this arises as a consequence of a natural phase transition in the dynamic self-organization among
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