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Worldwide patterns in mythology echo the human expansion out of Africa

2025-01-25

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Similarities between geographically distant mythological and folkloric traditions have been noted for a long time. With the elaboration of large banks of data describing the presence and absence of narrative motifs around the world, scholars have been able to statistically investigate their potential routes and mechanisms of diffusion. However, despite genetic data allowing for increasingly refined demographic mov...

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Literature Corpus work: 09c65ed8-aa25-5397-90b5-aceadcbf68f2
DOI: 10.1101/2025.01.24.634692

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