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STATUS: Does Our Need for It Explain ... Everything?

The Next Big Idea

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The Status Game in the Status Game

Anthropologist Robin Dunbar suggested that we evolve speech in order to gossip. If our ability to communicate emerged because we needed to reallocate status through gossip and enforce the rules of the tribe, that's a suggested and even more central role to the status game in our evolution.

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