Fairy tales are popular the world over, some so much that they have crossed over into multiple societies—Beauty and the Beast for example, has been told in one form or another across the globe. Modern linguists and anthropologists have set the origin of most such fairy tales to just prior to the time they were written down, which would make them several hundred years old. But this new research suggests they are much older than that, with some going back thousands of years.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-01-phylogenetic-analyses-fairy-tales-older.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-01-phylogenetic-analyses-fairy-tales-older.html#jCp
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