<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Robin Dunbar was the name quoted.<div><br></div><div>To be honest, although I've heard the popular science stuff about this on optimum social network size (120? But this is total network size, not the size of working groups) I'm not very familiar with the underlying research so I don't know where to point you for a good summary.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>David.</div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Stratford, Sandie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:SStratford@lincolncollege.ac.uk">SStratford@lincolncollege.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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