Dunbar argues that gossip is important in human societies in the maint

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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

bhatiamanu05 · Answer

I selected E as it is parallel. But In E primates is converted to Primate groups, Does it not changes the meaning.??

Kurtosis · Answer

We should look for a structure that is similar to "Dunbar argues that X is important in Y, just as A is important in B".

A. gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion, just as social grooming does for other primates - Incorrect. Parallelism error.
B. gossip is important in the maintenance of social cohesion in human society, just as social grooming does for other primates - Incorrect. Same error as in A.
C. in human societies gossip is important in social cohesion like social grooming for other primate societies - Incorrect. usage of 'like' is incorrect.
D. similar to social grooming in primates, human gossip is important in maintaining social cohesion - Incorrect. Comparison error. 
E. gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion, just as social grooming is in other primate groups - Correct.

Answer: E

jaisonsunny77 · Answer

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  -  here, we have a comparison between 2 dissimilar sentence structures: the " importance " of gossip for humans in the maintenance of social cohesion'' is being  compared with  the action '' does '' commanded by 'social grooming'.  
 
B. gossip is important in the maintenance of social cohesion in human society, just as social grooming does for other primates  -  has the same error as described in (B).  
 
C. in human societies gossip is important in social cohesion like social grooming for other primate societies  -  ''like'' cannot be used to compare clauses. 
  
D. similar to social grooming in primates, human gossip is important in maintaining social cohesion  -  here, the ''importance'' is being compared with ''social grooming'' itself. Hence, we have an illogical comparison here.

E. gossip is important in human societies in the maintenance of social cohesion, just as social grooming is in other primate groups - has no error. Hence,   (E) is the right answer choice.

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