• Seleni@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They might be talking about the Monkeysphere - More professionally known as Dunbar’s Number

    Basically, there’s a finite number of people our brains evolved to be able to consider as part of ‘our group’, and once you go beyond that number you tend to run into issues ‘humanizing’ those people and seeing them as complex personalities.

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      9 months ago

      Exactly. I didn’t know that term but about all primitive communities consisted of about 100 to 150 individuals and trading with other communities. Kingdoms are something really new in evolutionary timespans, far newer than clothes, to which we already have slight adjustments in skin hair.

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      9 months ago

      150 as the basic unit size of professional armies in Roman antiquity and in modern times since the 16th century

      as well as notions of appropriate company size.

      lol