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On the Origins of the Arts

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by Edward O. Wilson [5]
May-June 2012 [6]

“On the Origins of the Arts” was reprinted from The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson [7]. Copyright © 2012 by Edward O. Wilson. With the permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. [8]

Keywords

cave paintings [9], Chauvet [10], E.O. Wilson [11], evolution [12]

Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts
On the Origins of the Arts
Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture
Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture
Edward O. Wilson [5]
May-June 2012 [6]
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“On the Origins of the Arts” was reprinted from The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson [7]. Copyright © 2012 by Edward O. Wilson. With the permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. [8]

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