Jul 15
Why did homo sapiens survive while Neanderthals didn’t? Thriller novelist Lee Child wrote not long ago that it was because homo sapiens developed language. “But then something strange happened,” Child wrote. “We invented fiction. We started talking about things that hadn’t happened to people that didn’t exist.” Speculating, based on various bits of evidence, that storytelling may be 100,000 years old, Child asked: “Why? Why tell stories?” Noting that “no new behavior could possibly becom
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