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Post by Adam on May 25, 2009 13:48:46 GMT -1
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Post by redraven on May 25, 2009 20:54:09 GMT -1
Without actually reading the book, what does this tell us that we didn't know before?
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Post by Adam on May 26, 2009 8:10:21 GMT -1
Not having read the book (I'll be asking the local library), I can't tell you :-)
Thee and me, probably not much. But I've always held that it's pretty obvious that storytelling has a strong cultural survival aspect, and it's nice to see that extended as an argument to an evolutionary context particularly when, as the review points out, there is a not insignificant cost to a species developing the ability to tell stories, so there must be an overarching benefit.
That said, I'm not sure that the costs suggested in the review are really costs. It may be that storytelling developed as a means of filling group "downtime" and dedicated storytellers came later when, when social groups could bare that burden. Don't know. I'll see if the library can get it, but they aren't always successful with my wilder requests :-)
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