On the origin of stories : evolution, cognition, and fiction
Boyd, Brian, 1952-2009
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Place reservation for On the origin of stories : evolution, cognition, and fictionThe world's preeminent Nabokov scholar, Brian Boyd, argues that storytelling is an adaptive human behavior. Storytelling makes us more expert in social situations, speeding up our capacity to process patterns of social information, to make inferences from other minds and from situations fraught with difficult or subtle choices.
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap, 2009.
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392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Specialized.
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9780674033573 (hbk)0674033574 (hbk)
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801.9'2
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English
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35237
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