Many evolutionary biologists believe that gossip is an evolutionary adaptation. The highest pressure that an individual organism experiences does not come from

Many evolutionary biologists believe that gossip is an evolutionary adaptation. The highest pressure that an individual organism experiences does not come from predators, but rather other individuals of the same species. There is always a struggle for mates, food, resources, space, etc. Even with predators, it is often not whether you can run away from it, but whether you are faster than other members of your species. Coming back to the gossip, it is basically assessment of what others are doing and where you stand. That's why gossip is so interesting for so many people, and that's why we gossip, why we have all these magazines, and all these reality shows. In some way, even fiction and drama is a sort of gossip, where we watch what happens to others and evaluate it from our own perspective.