Storytelling and evolution

Telling stories, it turns out, might be an adaptive feature--it helped our ancestors stay alive, and therefore evolved as a part of our biology.

So argues Joseph Carroll in his tome Literary Darwinism reviewed by Denis Dutton in Philosophy and Literature.

In essence, it seems, stories give us "templates for a normal emotional life." Literature is a social experience.

.: Posted by Duane Bidwell on Monday, November 15, 2004

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