Trust and the Scale of Management
by Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar is a Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology
May 15, 2022
Compendium
by Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar is a Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology
May 15, 2022
Compendium
We are apt to forget that, as a species, we have only lived in settlements of any size for around 8000 years, and in large scale complex societies for considerably less than half that time. For most of our history back into the mists of time, we lived as hunter-gatherers.
The basic building blocks of hunter-gatherer societies are living (or camp) groups of just 30-50 people; several such camp groups cluster together to form a local community (of 100-200 people), several of these in turn make up a tribe of typically 1000-2000 people (formally defined by the language they speak).
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