We like to think that we are rational creatures: we even named our species 'homo sapiens' – wise man. Anybody who has ever seen a real human, however, knows that this is flattering. What distinguishes us from other species is not our wisdom but something else – our habit of telling stories. For this reason, communications theorist Walter Fisher proposed that we call ourselves homo narrans, or story-telling man.
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