Monkeysphere

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The monkeysphere theory is a thing type::hypothesis advanced by anthropologist Robin Dunbar which states that individual humans are limited in the number of meaningful social connections they can form; this number is known as Dunbar's number. In this hypothesis, the word "monkeysphere" is a sort of geometric metaphor for this limit; a more precise term might be "monkey horizon", meaning the social world our "monkey-brains" are capable of encompassing, with everything else being "over the horizon".

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 * : redirects to Dunbar's number as of 2011-07-21