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The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.
— Sir Terry Pratchett, The Globe (The Science of Discworld, #2), 2002
Thanks, I had to think of this one too.
GNU Terry Pratchett
I always thought the “sapiens” came from “thinking”, but I looked it up and it does come from wise! Homo cogitare would have meant thinking man.
…and his dick was so big, Snake fell in love with it. And that’s how the world was made. And that’s why I wear this funny hat to keep us all safe.
And that’s why Josh is a dick and we need to banish him
Currently reading “The Science of Storytelling” by Will Storr, it is quite good so far!
Ah yes Mr. Storr, inventor of the Story.
I’ve got this on my tablet. It keeps getting recommended to me.
I finished it just there. First chapter and bits of later chapter are great, but unfortunately the rest of the book is poorly sourced. For a book with “science” in title, I was expecting more rigour.
The more complex evolution makes a brain, the more likely animals are gonna do some weird shit with it.
“Heard you like brains, so we’ve put brains in brains inside your brains. Good luck trying to find out why.”
Gurk likes one with half man half mammoth
It’s time for a little story…
It’s definitely Storytime…
*Nightwish song starts playing*
