The headline and the deck of the article are contradictory. The headline claims art "invented humanity" while the deck says art allowed us to "find out who they really were." One is an invention the other is a discovery. One implies a malleable identity, the other a ground truth.
I'm partial to the first — our conception of ourselves is largely a creation of our imagination.
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I'm partial to the first — our conception of ourselves is largely a creation of our imagination.