(~150) is the size of a community in which everyone knows each other’s identities and roles.
In anthropology class. You can ask someone to write down the name of everyone they can think of, real or fictional, live or dead and most people will not make it to 250.
Some individuals like professional gossip columnists or some politicians can remember as many as 1,000 people.
Dunbar's number is largely psuedoscience. Dunbar just took the group size of gorillas, scaled up to humans based on brain size, and then published, without bothering with silly little details like actually testing human group sizes.
With age comes four molecular hallmarks: chronic inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, genome instability, and epigenetic changes. Recent findings have pinpointed the epigenome as a major driver of physiological aging.
Yes I did find that paper, I did not find which one of the 5 authors it was, or someone not listed as an author. The word 'vacation' is not in the paper.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.02177.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has documented over 100 people killed in the United States and Canada in attacks committed by extremists linked to the white supremacist movement since 2014.
So 10 per year across 2 countries? You know, Google also says that 20-30 people die of lightning strikes per year in the US alone. Lightning injury rates are higher still. The more you know!
(~150) is the size of a community in which everyone knows each other’s identities and roles.
In anthropology class. You can ask someone to write down the name of everyone they can think of, real or fictional, live or dead and most people will not make it to 250.
Some individuals like professional gossip columnists or some politicians can remember as many as 1,000 people.
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