One might imagine that the first examples of art would be simple and crude. New finds bolster the evidence that modern humans were astonishingly quick in developing their artistic skills.
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Sinclair, A. Art of the ancients. Nature 426, 774–775 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/426774a
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