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The Story of Storytelling
What the hidden relationships of ancient folktales reveal about their evolution—and our own
Jabr, Ferris http://harpers.org/archive/2019/03/the-story-of-storytelling/
Publisher: Harper's Magazine
Date Written: 01/03/2019
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
Since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, scientists have repeatedly proposed that the laws of biological evolution apply not just to bird and beast but also to creatures of the mind. Perhaps most famously, in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, the English evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the word meme to describe a "unit of cultural transmission" analogous to a biological gene.
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