Why Humans Create Art: Insights from Science and Evolution

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1. 12 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   The 45,500-year-old warty pig was reported in Nature in 2021, not 2019 (matches own reference list and later body text)

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   FAQ (What is the oldest art ever found and what does it tell us?): '...dated to at least 45,500 years ago using uranium-series dating of calcium carbonate deposits overlying the pigment (Brumm et al., 2021, Science Advances).'

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   FAQ (What is the oldest art ever found and what does it tell us?): '...dated to at least 45,500 years ago using uranium-series dating of calcium carbonate deposits overlying the pigment (Brumm et al., 2021, Nature).'

   Why: Body content and bibliography already correctly cited the 2021 Brumm et al. Nature paper on the Sulawesi warty pig discovery, but the FAQ JSON-LD field had the correct year (2021) attached to the wrong journal name ('Science Advances' instead of 'Nature'), a residual citation error tied to the same unverified-year fact. Corrected the FAQ to cite Nature, matching the article's own reference list (Brumm et al., 2021, Nature, 592, 582-586).

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