Re: Must Watch! It's happening.

I think it's as real as it gets, this is the stuff of future "fairy tales" and we are in the middle of it!

Some might even argue that the Bible is nothing more than a book of fairy tales... But I don't think so...


~The Fairy Tales That Predate Christianity~

Using techniques from evolutionary biology, scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age.

ED YONG
JAN 20, 2016

"Stories evolve. As they are told and retold to new audiences, they accumulate changes in plot, characters, and settings. They behave a lot like living organisms, which build up mutations in the genes that they pass to successive generations.

This is more than a metaphor. It means that scientists can reconstruct the relationships between versions of a story using the same tools that evolutionary biologists use to study species. They can compare different versions of the same tale and draw family trees—phylogenies—that unite them. They can even reconstruct the last common ancestor of a group of stories."

more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/on-the-origin-of-stories/424629/ Tweet