Humanity’s oldest art depicts animals with extreme weapons
Evidence
The earliest human paintings—some more than 30,000 years old—portray animals with extreme weapons. Wooly rhinoceros from Chauvet Cave (Above) and Irish elk from Lascaux Cave (Below). — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 950
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Comparisons of animal and human weapons have a long scholarly tradition.; Humans painted extreme animal weapons 30,000 years ago, showing ancient fascination; Animal weapons evolved to extremes far beyond practical size — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 2 (+3 more)
Related
- Humans painted extreme animal weapons 30,000 years ago, showing ancient fascination (similarity 0.97)
- Comparisons of animal and human weapons have a long scholarly tradition. (similarity 0.87)
- Animal weapons evolved to extremes far beyond practical size (similarity 0.81)
- Extreme weapons evolved independently across roughly three thousand species (similarity 0.80)
- Animal weapons can evolve rapidly within just seven generations (similarity 0.80)
- Human WMDs exceed any animal weapon in destructive capacity (similarity 0.79)
- The evolutionary drivers of animal weapons also explain human weapon elaboration. (similarity 0.79)
- Identical circumstances trigger and collapse arms races in animals and humans. (similarity 0.79)
- Human and animal arms races follow parallel evolutionary dynamics (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Animal weapons evolved to extremes far beyond practical size
#corroborates(0.80) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 2 - Extreme weapons evolved independently across roughly three thousand species
#expands(0.70) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 15 - The evolutionary drivers of animal weapons also explain human weapon elaboration.
#expands(0.70) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 7 - Animal weapons can evolve rapidly within just seven generations
#expands(0.60) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 294