[[Philip Lieberman]] argues that since band societies of approximately 30–50 people are bounded by [[nutrition]]al limitations to what group sizes can be fed without at least rudimentary [[agriculture]], big human brains consuming more nutrients than ape brains, group sizes of approximately 150 cannot have been selected for in paleolithic humans.<ref>{{cite book|isbn=9780691148588|title=The Unpredictable Species: What Makes Humans Unique|last=Lieberman|first=Philip|date=2013|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, N.J.|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/unpredictablespe0000lieb}}</ref> {{Dubious|date=December 2017}} Brains much smaller than human or even mammalian brains are also known to be able to support social relationships, including [[social insect]]s with hierarchies where each individual "knows" its place (such as the [[paper wasp]] with its societies of approximately 80 individuals <ref>{{cite episode|series=Micro Monsters 3D|last=Attenborough|first=David}}</ref>) and [[computer]]-simulated virtual autonomous agents with simple reaction programming emulating what is referred to in primatology as "ape politics".<ref>{{cite book|title= How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence|last1= Pfeifer|first1=Rolf|last2=Bongard|first2=Josh|isbn=9780262162395|date=October 2006|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}</ref> | [[Philip Lieberman]] argues that since band societies of approximately 30–50 people are bounded by [[nutrition]]al limitations to what group sizes can be fed without at least rudimentary [[agriculture]], big human brains consuming more nutrients than ape brains, group sizes of approximately 150 cannot have been selected for in paleolithic humans.<ref>{{cite book|isbn=9780691148588|title=The Unpredictable Species: What Makes Humans Unique|last=Lieberman|first=Philip|date=2013|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, N.J.|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/unpredictablespe0000lieb}}</ref> {{Dubious|date=December 2017}} Brains much smaller than human or even mammalian brains are also known to be able to support social relationships, including [[social insect]]s with hierarchies where each individual "knows" its place (such as the [[paper wasp]] with its societies of approximately 80 individuals <ref>{{cite episode|series=Micro Monsters 3D|last=Attenborough|first=David}}</ref>) and [[computer]]-simulated virtual autonomous agents with simple reaction programming emulating what is referred to in primatology as "ape politics".<ref>{{cite book|title= How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence|last1= Pfeifer|first1=Rolf|last2=Bongard|first2=Josh|isbn=9780262162395|date=October 2006|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}</ref> |