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#308: How the Science of Storytelling Actually Works

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The Stone Age Brains Meet the Jetsons

In this 20 first century of speed information and high technology, we still have stone age brains. Men and women gossip similar amounts. The only difference s in the genus that men stop gossiping for some reason. And my kind of supposition that gossip is extremely dangerous. You know, it's a very dangerous thing to engage in. Back in the i hunter gatherer era, execution was a universal at one point in our history. Gossip outrage punishment can also be redound on yourself if you're careless with your gossip. We don't like to think of ourselves as gossips - whether we are or not.

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