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A Cosmic Hunt in the Berber sky : a phylogenetic reconstruction of a Palaeolithic mythology Julien d’Huy* Les mythes, comme les espèce, évoluent par descendan- As species, myths are evolving entities. Here, we bu - ce modifiée. Nous avons ici construit différents arbres ilt phylogenetics trees of a mythological family. The phylogénétiques pour une même famille de mythes. results clearly support low horizontal transmissions Les résultats montrent que les mythes se transmettent (borrowings), Palaeolithic diffusions and punctuated essentiellement de façon verticale,ce qui permet de remonter à une diffusion paléolithique et reconstruire evolution. Additionaly, a probable Palaeolithic ver- une proto-version. De plus, il semblerait que les mythes sion of the story has been reconstructed. évoluent par ponctuations. 1 – Introduction gressive changes in heritable traits (genes Biology and mythology have historical / mythems) over successive transmissions depth, and we need history to understand (Lévi-Strauss 1971 : 603-604). Two taxa are them. Yet how do current myths and species more closely related when they share a more account for past changes ? What is their ori- recent common ancestor, and this similarity gin ? When and how have they evolved ? Could can be used to reconstruct evolutionary his- we reconstruct their primary state ? How tories. We have had some conclusive results can we tell the difference between chance in m