In one of the 'Science of Discworld' books, there's a half-joking suggestion that the human species should be called Pan narrans - the storytelling chimpanzee -

In one of the 'Science of Discworld' books, there's a half-joking suggestion that the human species should be called Pan narrans - the storytelling chimpanzee - instead of Homo sapiens, because of how important stories are to us.