Story telling

Creative story telling -- perhaps the oldest of arts -- is found throughout history, and like language itself, is spontaneously devised and understood by human beings everywhere. Human pleasure in imaginative fictions, from tales told in preliterature tribes through Greek theater, bulky nineteenth-century novels, and film and televised entertainments today. Far from being derived from sets of cultural conventions, the enjoyment of fiction shows clear evidence of Darwinian adaptation, for instance, in how even every young children can rationally deal with the make-believe aspect of stories, distinguishing story-worlds from each other and from reality with a high degree of innate sophistication. Not only does the artistic structure of stories speak to Darwinian sources: so does the intense pleasure taken in their universal themes of live, death, adventure, family conflict, justice, and overcoming adversity.

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