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SC - Gossip

by harsh.champ » Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:06 am
Dunbar argues that gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion, just as social grooming does for other primates.

A. gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion, just as social grooming does for other primates
B. gossip is important in the maintenance of social cohesion in human society, just as social grooming does for other primates
C. in human societies gossip is important in social cohesion like social grooming for other primate societies
D. similar to social grooming in primates, human gossip is important in maintaining social cohesion
E. gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion, just as social grooming is in other primate groups
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by money9111 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:51 am
imo D
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by thephoenix » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:53 pm
harsh.champ wrote:Dunbar argues that gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion, just as social grooming does for other primates.

A. gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion, just as social grooming does for other primates
B. gossip is important in the maintenance of social cohesion in human society, just as social grooming does for other primates
C. in human societies gossip is important in social cohesion like social grooming for other primate societies
D. similar to social grooming in primates, human gossip is important in maintaining social cohesion
E. gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion, just as social grooming is in other primate groups
IMO E

e maintains llelism gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion is llel with social grooming is in other primate groups

in D wrng comparison

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by bhumika.k.shah » Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:05 am
Kindly provide an explanation as to why u think its D

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money9111 wrote:imo D

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by bhumika.k.shah » Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:12 am
my question is Shouldnt it be for the maintenance of ?

hope the highlighted part helps :-)
harsh.champ wrote:Dunbar argues that gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion, just as social grooming does for other primates.

A. gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion, just as social grooming does for other primates - lack of parallelism ELIMINATE
B. gossip is important in the maintenance of social cohesion in human society, just as social grooming does for other primates - lack of parallelism ELIMINATE
C. in human societies gossip is important in social cohesion like social grooming for other primate societies - awkward . wrong placement of like . ELIMINATE
D. similar to social grooming in primates, human gossip is important in maintaining social cohesion - incorrect.
E. gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion, just as social grooming is in other primate groups - correct. the only sentence that is parallel .

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by bhumika.k.shah » Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:13 am
Also ,
kindly check before posting , whether this post has already been posted.
And still in doubt, post it in the same thread. Donot start a new topic UNNECESSARILY

https://www.beatthegmat.com/dunbar-argues-t38276.html

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by kstv » Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:00 am
Is there a way to find out whether a post as been posted before other than giving a search ?

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by bhumika.k.shah » Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:03 am
how is that possible ? knowing things w/o searching for it ? Wow . i think its not even possible for the lords :D

if u donot find it on google, then go to btg's respective forum and before posting a new topic- search for the question in the specific forum itself .

If still u dont find it then go ahead posting the q as a new topic.

Hope this helps :)
kstv wrote:Is there a way to find out whether a post as been posted before other than giving a search ?

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by shashank.ism » Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:13 am
kstv wrote:Is there a way to find out whether a post as been posted before other than giving a search ?
No I don't think any other way is there..
the only other way is u r following the link for a very long time....and no other way ....

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