Gossiping empowered us to bond with others socially, create friendships and even hierarchies, allowing us to cooperate while gaining an edge on the animal kingdom. Gossip is one of the unheralded ...

attributes gossiping to–and this is the true, inside story–animal behavior. Nicholson, author of “Executive Instinct: Managing the Human Animal in the Information Age”(Crown Business ...

We can exchange social information. We can form much more complex societies than other animals because we affectively gossip. 'In fact it is gossip that sets us apart from other animals.