Natural science The Origin of Words / Robin Dunbar / Shunsuke Matsuura

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Humans were born to talk about.
When a group of monkeys grew too large to have a "grooming," human "gossip = language" was born as an alternative means of communication. Based on the latest achievements in biology, brain physiology, anthropology and psychology, it takes a bird' s-eye view of five million years and reverses the evolutionary history of words.
The author, who draws attention in the formulation of the "Dunbar number", explains what a word is and what a group is.