In this book Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language, psychologist Robin Dunbar
looks at gossip as an instrument of social order and cohesion — much like the endless grooming with which our primate cousins tend to their social relationships.
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- Gossip and Lashon Hara Conversation about other people
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