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Introduction

1.   Bernard Wood, “Human Evolution: Fifty Years After Homo Habilis,” Nature, April 2, 2014, pp. 31–33.

2.   Indeed, it is estimated that 65 percent of our time is spent in narrative. See Leo Widrich, “The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story Is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains,” December 2012, lifehacker.com.

3.   See Mor Regev, Christopher J. Honey, Erez Simony, and Uri Hasson, “Selective and Invariant Neural Responses to Spoken and Written Narratives,” Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 33, no. 40, October 2013, pp. 15978–15988; Jonathan Brennan, Yuval Nir, Uri Hasson, Rafael Malach, David J. Heeger, and Llina Pylkkänen, “Syntactic Structure Building in the Anterior Temporal Lobe During Natural Story Listening,” ...

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