[blam]

"Art hit the ground running. There appear to be no amateur, tenative, halting steps ~ there was no art, and then there was."

I don't believe that. We just haven't found or the 100,000 year old art hasn't survived.

[muawiyah]

Even today artistic talent is much more a question of having the right gene set than anything else. It is exceedingly rare to find a good artist in a family that does not already have a good artist.