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In Before and Beyond Representation, Lambros Malafouris’ proposes that enactive mark-making bootstrapped the Paleolithic mind into representation, both internal and external, This allows that representation may not be an innate capability, but a property of human culture, propagated via cultural training.What evidence do we have, ie in developmental psychology or anthropology or neurology, that internal representation is either innate or learned?

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