Tom Munnecke’s Eclectica

Christopher Allen wrote and interesting piece on the Dunbar limit for on-line communities.

Here’s a piece by Hazen which has an interesting limit to Ant Colonies:

“A similar rule of density seems to pertain to ant colonies: In those with 80,000 ants or more, a new behavior emerges. The ants of that colony become aggressive, and begin attacking adjacent ant colonies. A colony containing fewer than that number of ants will stay within its immediate territory.”

hmmmm… I wonder if the Dunbar limit varies with the complexity of the agents in the community. Humans are more complex than ants; their limits are therefore lower.

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