Flows of information and energy drive the size, structure of hunter-gatherer societies

Despite wide variety amongst hunger-gatherer cultures, a new analysis finds that a "small world" network configuration is common to the social structures of all such groups. These network structures are constrained by the flows of energy and information through them and operate as "collective computers" optimized for the solving of complex problems.

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