Drawing is a cognitive tool that makes the invisible contents of mental life visible. Humans
use this tool to produce a remarkable variety of pictures, from realistic portraits to schematic …

The genetic basis for the emergence of creativity in modern humans remains a mystery
despite sequencing the genomes of chimpanzees and Neanderthals, our closest hominid …

Neanderthal brains were similar in size to those of modern humans. We sought to
investigate potential differences in neurogenesis during neocortex development. Modern …

Indonesia harbors some of the oldest known surviving cave art. Previously, the earliest
dated rock art from this region was a figurative painting of a Sulawesi warty pig (Sus …

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Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an
evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to …

Figurative cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date to at least 35,000
years ago (ka) and hand-stencil art from the same region has a minimum date of 40 ka. Here …

Humans seem to have an adaptive predisposition for inventing, telling and consuming
stories. Prehistoric cave art provides the most direct insight that we have into the earliest …

Abstract and depictive representations produced by drawing—known from Europe, Africa
and Southeast Asia after 40,000 years ago—are a prime indicator of modern cognition and …

Geological archives record multiple reversals of Earth's magnetic poles, but the global
impacts of these events, if any, remain unclear. Uncertain radiocarbon calibration has limited …