Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language

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  • Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language Book Detail

  • Author : Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
  • Release Date : 1996
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Pages : 244
  • ISBN 13 : 9780674363366
  • File Size : 96,96 MB
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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