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Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language is a 1996 book by the anthropologist Robin Dunbar, in which the author argues that language evolved from social grooming.He further suggests that a stage of this evolution was the telling of gossip, an argument supported by the observation that language is adapted for storytelling.
Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-36334-5; Runciman, Maynard Smith, & Dunbar (eds.). 1997. Evolution of Culture and Language in Primates and Humans. Oxford University Press. Dunbar, Knight, & Power (eds.). 1999. The Evolution of Culture. Edinburgh University Press ISBN 0-8135-2730-9
Dunbar, in Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language, proposes furthermore that language may have arisen as a "cheap" means of social grooming, allowing early humans to maintain social cohesion efficiently. Without language, Dunbar speculates, humans would have to expend nearly half their time on social grooming, which would have made ...
Pages in category "1996 non-fiction books" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 238 total. ... The Great Wave (book) Grooming, Gossip ...
Humans gossip as a form of social bonding, sharing information, giving a sense of inclusion but also power. Alas, it tends to turn negative fast, tarnishing reputations, speaking behind people’s ...
Gossip, according to Robin Dunbar in his book Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, language does for group-living humans what manual grooming does for other primates—it allows individuals to service their relationships and so maintain their alliances on the basis of the principle: if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
A moody, clenched drama that works its tension so deep you may find your palms marked with the indentations of your fingernails by the end, “Les Nôtres” is the deeply uneasy but compelling ...
Dunbar (1994) argues that gossip is the equivalent of social grooming often observed in other primate species. [33] Anthropological investigations indicate that gossip is a cross-cultural phenomenon, providing evidence for evolutionary accounts of gossip.