Scholarly use of the term may originate with the German ethnologist Kurt Ranke in a paper published in 1967.
I now propose homo narrans to be added to the list.
'[5][6] The fantasy book The Science of Discworld II: The Globe concludes with the words 'Plenty of creatures are intelligent, but only one tells stories.
Yes, we think that would be a very good idea...'[7] (The last sentence is an allusion to a quote attributed to Gandhi, included in a footnote earlier in the book, when asked what he thought of Western civilisation on a visit to London.)
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