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Is There A Limit To How Many Friends We Can Have?

by NPR/TED Staff

Anthropologist Robin Dunbar says our social networks are limited to about 150 connections.
Anthropologist Robin Dunbar says our social networks are limited to about 150 connections. Courtesy of Robin Dunbar

Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Networks

About Robin Dunbar's TED Talk

Anthropologist Robin Dunbar believes the evolutionary structure of social networks limits us to 150 meaningful relationships at a time — even with the rise of social media

About Robin Dunbar

Robin Dunbar is a professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford. His research tries to understand the behavioral, cognitive and neuro-endocrinological mechanisms that underpin social bonding.

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