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Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language Book

Here the author examines gossip as a form of 'verbal grooming' and as a means of strengthening relationships. He challenges the idea that language developed during male activities such as hunting and that it was actually amongst women that it evolved.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Arguing that gossiping is vital to a society, and that there is no such thing as "idle" gossip, this book disputes the assumption that language developed in male-male relationships. The author believes that, on the contrary, language evolved among women, and contends that, although men are just as likely to natter as women, women gossip more about other people, thus strengthening the female-female relationships that underpin society.

  • 0571173977
  • 9780571173976
  • Professor Robin Dunbar
  • 20 May 2004
  • Faber and Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 176
  • New ed
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