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March 5, 2024

Evolution, Human Nature, and Imagination

The human capacity for creating an imaginative virtual world has been the culminating adaptation of the long human trajectory of gene-culture coevolution.

March 26, 2024

Why Do Humans Enjoy Fictional Stories?

The imaginary worlds we create and consume are not cultural anomalies, but rather direct manifestations of our cognition.

January 25, 2013

Religion vs Evolution Explanatations: Don’t Be Afraid to Tell a Great Story

Evolution designed humans to see the world in fictional story mode.

February 6, 2013

Genes Mix Faster Than Stories

Folk tales' 'DNA' shows that people would sooner have sex with strangers than tell their fables.

December 6, 2017

Solving Friction with Fiction: Cooperation, Co-ordination, and the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Storytelling

Storytelling may help to solve problems of co-ordination in hunter-gatherer societies in order to promote cooperation.