Did Darwin End Werewolf Myths?
In July 2009, at a meeting of British Society for the History of Science, Brian Regal is to outline a new theory about the demise of belief in werewolves. A rough summary is quoted in USA Today, but he blames Darwin for discovering evolution: The spread of the idea of evolution helped kill off the werewolf because a canid-human hybrid makes no sense from an evolutionary point of view. It will be interesting to see if this is accepted by folklorists (and cultural historians). Comments (0)See All PostsShare Prev
