Julien d'Huy is a doctoral candidate in history at Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris. His multidisciplinary research, conducted in association with the Institute of African Worlds, draws on evolutionary theory and computer modeling in the comparative analysis of myths.
How Myths Evolve over Time and Migrations
Julien d’Huy, of the Pantheon–Sorbonne University in Paris, talks about the use of evolutionary theory and computer modeling in the comparative analysis of myths and folktales, the subject of his article in the December 2016 Scientific American.
Scientists Trace Society’s Myths to Primordial Origins
Analyzing how stories change in the retelling down through the generations sheds light on the history of human migration going as far back as the Paleolithic period