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The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.
— Sir Terry Pratchett, The Globe (The Science of Discworld, #2), 2002
…and his dick was so big, Snake fell in love with it. And that’s how the world was made. And that’s why I wear this funny hat to keep us all safe.
And fire. Fire is essential for story time.
Currently reading “The Science of Storytelling” by Will Storr, it is quite good so far!
I’ve got this on my tablet. It keeps getting recommended to me.
I finished it just there. First chapter and bits of later chapter are great, but unfortunately the rest of the book is poorly sourced. For a book with “science” in title, I was expecting more rigour.
