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Nature 459, 909 (18 June 2009) | doi:10.1038/459909b; Published online 17 June 2009
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In his News & Views article 'Origins of the female image' (Nature 459, 176–177; 2009), Paul Mellars describes the 35,000-year-old figurine of a woman, carved from a piece of mammoth ivory, as "explicitly — and blatantly — that of a woman, with an exaggeration of sexual characteristics (large, projecting breasts, a greatly enlarged and explicit vulva, and bloated belly and thighs) that by twenty-first century standards could be seen as bordering on the pornographic".Mellars has, of course, never been pregnant.
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