ABSTRACT
Artistic appreciation and artistic creativeness are surely two of the facets of man's nature which most readily come to mind when thinking of his uniqueness. A number of instances have recently come to light which demonstrate that many animals, at least including the birds and the mammals, must possess greater powers of conceptualisation than hitherto seemed credible. The gap between "man" and "ape" has been greatly narrowed in respect of brain size by the discovery of Australopithecus in South Africa and Pithecanthropus erectus with a brain size of 775 to 1,225 cc. Chimpanzees in the wild use both sticks and leaves as tools. Sticks are used for various purposes, but in particular they are employed during the time of year when the chimpanzees feed on termites. Acts of ritual anthropophagy seem to have been associated in a number of cases with a cult in which the occipital hole of the skull was enlarged with blows from a club.
