Begin at the beginning,’ said the King to the White Rabbit, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.’”14 This deceptively simple formula describes a powerful form of communication of which no other species is capable. While the emerging humans may have had a primitive form of language, and the Neandertals almost certainly were capable of spoken language, the profound changes in human life ushered in by the anatomically modern humans may have been due to their unique ability to tell a story in narrative form.
