title: Anthropology: The Long Lives of Fairy Tales.
abstract: Anthropologists, borrowing techniques from evolutionary biology, have demonstrated that some common fairy tales can be traced back 5,000 years, or more, long before the development of written traditions.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, Reading University, Reading, RG6 6UR, UK. Electronic address: m.pagel@reading.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pagel