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art history November 27, 2007

Over at The Frontal Cortex, Jonah Lehrer has a post up about possible origins of art, citing a passage by Natalie Angier in The New York Times. Main premise: art developed as a way of creating greater social cohesion.

I wonder what Mr Lehrer would think (or thinks) of David Lewis-William’s The Mind in the Cave?

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