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“We have given you, O Adam, no visage proper to yourself, nor endowment properly your own, in order that whatever place, whatever form, whatever gifts you may, with premeditation, select, these same you may have and possess through your own judgement and decision […] We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal as the free and proud shaper of your own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer.”
Oration on the Dignity of Man – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

The painting awakens

published on 28.02.2017

We will visit the rock shelters of Ulldecona with one of the most important deposits of cave paintings of Catalonia. We will see how the pictorial capacity in children from 1 to 4 years increases, and we will compare it with the pictorial capacity of the adult chimpanzees.
The following spoke: Ramon Viñas, an anthropologist at the Catalan Institute for Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES); Martí Peran, professor of History of Art (UB); Miquel Llorente, primatologist of the Mona Foundation; Virginia Trémols, neuropsychologist at Anne Foundation – Dexeus Pediatrics Department, and Joan Garriga, specialist in Artificial Intelligence CEAB, CSIC.

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