Reading isn’t natural for humans – but storytelling is. Using decades of data, my new research highlights the role of parents in encouraging a love of books long before children start school.
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Cinderella has been taken further and further away from its origins that we forget it was originally a radical story about female desire, servitude and violence.
His life’s work was asserting the humanity and history of the Bantu people, while proposing that the soul was able to bring knowledge of the past and of the future into the present.
A maar is a volcanic crater, often filled with water. New research highlights the similarities between oral stories around the world that shed light on the formation of these craters.
It is plausible to suppose that human memories of long-extinct creatures today underpin many stories we have generally regarded as fiction.
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Production, University of Westminster
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Professor of Psychology, University of Otago