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The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Storytelling began as a way for humans to relay information, from where to find food sources to the benefits of familial bonding. Raymond A. Mar, Ph.D. theorizes that fictional stories were the easiest way to memorize and communicate a complex set of information.
Susan Reynolds • Fire Up Your Writing Brain
The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn
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the wisest of storytellers, through imagery and the richness of their languages and through the multileveled structure of their stories, provide a beacon for those open to a new understanding of humanity’s evolutionary process and who might hope to see themselves as part of that transformation.
Sally Mallam • The Science of Storytelling
Storytelling was perhaps our best adaptive tool for survival; for when put in the shape of a story, the brain remembers better as it activates more regions of the brain because a story effects you emotionally, imaginatively and intellectually
Taryn O'Neill • The 4th Act — A New Narrative.
“What is it about stories—what are their particularities—that enables them to work as they do? More than mere curiosity is at stake in this question, because human life depends on the stories we tell: the sense of self that those stories impart, the relationships constructed around shared stories, and the sense of purpose that stories both propose ... See more
The Evolution of Storytelling
In books such as The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall, there is copious research about how story sets us humans apart from animals. Even in our dreams, our subconscious is busy ordering events into narratives.