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CellBioGuy comments on October 2015 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 02 October 2015 08:44:29PM 2 points [-]

"Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts from Prehistory to Today"

Similarly I would expect a modern artist in an industrialized society to draw a wheeled vehicle or a kitchen implement better, and a person from the pleistocene to draw plants from their environment or tools they use more accurately.