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comment by CrazyEyeJoe
CrazyEyeJoe  ·  3468 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say

For all I know you may be right, but I find it more than a little arrogant to completely discount their research just because, on the face of it, there are other plausible hypotheses. Do you really think that these people only have a single data point to draw from?

Obviously, this article doesn't give us the full picture, as it's just a superficial popSci piece. I don't know how deep this research goes, but maybe you could do with giving them some benefit of the doubt.