Dunbar 56 the traditional view that

Dunbar 56 the traditional view that language was developed by the men at the early stage of social development in order to organize their manly hunting activities more effectively,or even to promote the exchange of poetic stories about their origins and the super natural. Instead he suggests that language evolved among women. We don't spend two-thirds of our time gossiping just because we can talk, argues Dunbar— 57, he goes on to say, language evolved specifically to allow us to gossip.