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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. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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.
Men in Ancient Greece would have their beards, hair, and fingernails trimmed and styled by the κουρεύς (cureus), in an agora (market place) which also served as a social gathering for debates and gossip. The barbers used a rough cloth (ὠμόλινον) on their shoulders to keep the hairs off their dresses.
Actress Seena Owen, on the cover of the November 1922 Broadway Brevities. The publication generally credited as America's first national weekly gossip tabloid is Broadway Brevities and Society Gossip, [a] which was launched in New York in 1916 and edited by a Canadian named Stephen G. Clow. Brevities started out covering high society and the A-list of the New York theater world, but by the ...
Lawmakers use the term grooming while talking about anti-LGBTQ+ laws like the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Here's what grooming really means, according to experts.
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The businessman, who owns X, has used the social media site to post or repost about child grooming in the UK more than 40 times over the last 24 hours.
Gossip can serve to:[1] • normalise and reinforce moral boundaries in a speech-community • foster and build a sense of community with shared interests and information • build structures of social accountability • further mutual social grooming (like many other uses of language, only more so) • provide a mating tool that allows (for ...