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Widarto Adi
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“In the wake of the Cognitive Revolution, gossip helped Homo sapiens to form larger and more stable bands. But even gossip has its limits. Sociological research has shown that the maximum ‘natural’ size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals. Most people can neither intimately know, nor gossip effectively about, more than 150 human beings.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Genre, then, as a means of study is a way we can examine and discuss the elements and functions of a type of practice. This work of identifying the features and characteristics is theoretical in one sense and critical in being able to understand how it works.”
― Photography: The Key Concepts
― Photography: The Key Concepts
“But the most important information that needed to be conveyed was about humans, not about lions and bison. Our language evolved as a way of gossiping.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“the only thing in which I have been actually thorough has been in being thoroughly unprepared. Alfred Stieglitz”
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“language evolved as a way of gossiping. According to this theory Homo sapiens is primarily a social animal. Social cooperation is our key for survival and reproduction. It is not enough for individual men and women to know the whereabouts of lions and bison. It’s much more important for them to know who in their band hates whom, who is sleeping with whom, who is honest, and who is a cheat.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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