Little Red Riding Hood gets an evolutionary makeover
A controversial digital analysis traces the origins of several well-known folktales
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MY, WHAT BIG DATA YOU HAVE A scholarly dispute has broken out over whether a new statistical analysis accurately portrays the evolution of folktales such as “Little Red Riding Hood.”
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