Sunday 14 March 2010 - Article on page 26 of 'New Review' of Observer. Alex Krotoski reports on interview with evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar who maintains that 'we can only ever have 150 friends at most'. That's how many our brains will allow us to connect with. He cites Doomsday records which show average number of a village to be 150.
But what struck me most was last two paras when Dunbar reflects on the role of the web in all of this and whether it can it can lead us to 'meaningful relationships' . He concludes:
'..in the end we actually have to get together to make a relationship work........In the end we rely heavily on touch and we still haven't figured out how to do virtual touch....Words are slippery, a touch is worth a 1000 words any day'
For video of interview see : www.guardian.co.uk/video
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