Prehistoric Images and Medicines Under the Sea in Cosquer Cave

Now, we know that the phenomenon was far more widely represented than had been thought. The now established fact that roughly at the same time such hand stencils were being made in sites hundreds of miles apart should deal a death blow to the theory of pathologic mutilations: how likely would it be that human groups living at such distances from one another should independently develop the same crippling diseases and should react in the same way by immortalizing them on the walls of the caves by means of the same techniques?

Though I don't necessarily agree with their conclusion. I have heard that most frogs and such missing a limb in areas where scientists track such because they are concerned about mutations in reaction to radiation simply lost it when something tried to eat them and they escaped.

I wonder if primitive peoples fairly often suffer injuries and lose parts of fingers.

Edit: The piece strikes me as possibly originally written in French and translated. Perhaps the title is a poor translation?

The planet did this one to itself.