misterprickles,
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Fascinating study that attempts to explain why humans painted the walls of

I still wonder if there's a bit of survivorship bias here. Maybe we only find paintings of such antiquity because they lay undisturbed for so long. What if our ancestors painted every surface they could lay a brush on, yet only these survived?

https://aeon.co/essays/why-did-our-ancestors-make-startling-art-in-dark-firelit-caves

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