Dunbar noted that as the researchers developed analogies, and as other researchers built on the ideas around those analogies, the solutions to their problems seemed to simply emerge. Sometimes, a researcher would spend a week vexed by a problem, and the solution would seem to present itself in just ten minutes of discussion with peers. Dunbar also found that the labs with more diverse teams of individuals—people with different areas of expertise who were working on very different types of projects—generated more creative insights and produced more significant research.
