Aesthetic appreciation is more than seeing, and symbolicity is more than discriminating: a comment on Tylén et al. (2020)

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<p>This article provides a brief critique on a recent study [Tylén, K. et al. (2020): The evolution of early symbolic behavior in Homo sapiens. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117(9), 1578-1584. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1910880117] on whether early human engravings became more aesthetic, more culturally identifiable and more symbolic over time. We argue that some of the experimental designs in the target article does not m...

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• Emotions
• Facial Expression
• Genotype
• Multifactorial Inheritance
• Netherlands
• Perception
• Phenotype
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide

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fea62a68-a7b4-58f4-85cf-f2bf471bb865

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10.31234/osf.io/5quya