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Why You Can Only Have 150 Friends (According to Science)

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Humanity moved past prehistoric hardship, only for modern social organization to deliver an absurdly bleak punchline.
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The number was rounded upward for one reason: it sounded more authoritative in a book.
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When a narrator repeatedly asks what you know about ISPs, the sponsorship setup stops pretending to be subtle.
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A close social group contains about 12 to 15 people, with bereavement described in unnervingly casual terms.
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A family Christmas card is sarcastically presented as proof of social value despite looking awkward and performative.
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Dunbar’s exaggerated caricature mangles his accent so badly that simplistic research explanations become the joke.

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