Quantifying and explaining the rise of fiction.

Evol Hum Sci · 2025 · PMC12344597 · PMID 40809157

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In Chinese fictions from the AMCF dataset (N = 1,623: β = 0.0003, CI [−0.00001, 0.0007], p = 0.056; Figure 7G ), the increase was marginally significant.

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Some French works from this period were also highly fictive (although the model indicates an overall trend of declining fictiveness in France until the Industrial Revolution); for instance Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699) featured interactions with entirely mythical beings like nymphs and gods taking place in fantastical landscapes.

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