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Your social circle is proportional to the size of your brain.

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The size of a person's "orbitomedial prefrontal cortex" (the area of the brain that recognises other people's moods and personalities) can predict the size of that person's social circle, according to an Oxford researcher. In a social network, the typical prefrontal cortex has roughly 147.8 pals.

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