Gossip-Grooming Hypothesis

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A posit in evolutionary psychology that the size of the human brain is not the result of the daily exigencies of food gathering, but rather the result of language and gossip. The hypothesis asserts that gossip is the human equivalent of lower animals’ grooming

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