The Storytelling Animal

Book Trailer by Jonathan Gottschall
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Statisticians believe they could get a monkey to type Hamlet if they can only convince one to randomly thwack a typewriter for a long, long time. But a monkey already wrote Hamlet, or at least a great ape did.

And long before any of these apes thought of writing Hamlet or Harlequins or Harry Potter stories, they thronged around hearthfires trading wild lies about brave tricksters and young lovers, selfless heroes and shrewd hunters, sad chie...