“…O n the basis of the social brain hypothesis (Byrne and Whiten, 1989;Whiten and Byrne, 1997;Dunbar, 2000;Dunbar, 2003), an explanation of social structures, which are typical for humankind, is expected to offer knowledge about human origins, such as the limitation on the number of social relationships (Dunbar, 2000;Dunbar, 2003;Hill and Dunbar, 2003;Gonçalves et al, 2011;Arnaboldi et al, 2013a) and the skewness of social relationships (Zhou et al, 2005;Hossmann et al, 2011;Arnaboldi et al, 2012;Hu et al, 2012;Song et al, 2012;Arnaboldi et al, 2013b;Fujihara and Miwa, 2014), that is, its distributions following a power law (Hossmann et al, 2011;Arnaboldi et al, 2012;Hu et al, 2012;Pachur et al, 2012;Song et al, 2012;Fujihara and Miwa, 2014). These social structures may be caused by human beings' social grooming strategies (Dunbar, 2004).…”