Horse Paintings More Accurate than Abstract

The University of York published research which finds genes in paleolithic horses that created the lepord spots seen on cave drawings by proto-humans at that time. This indicates that the drawings were not abstract depictions of horses, but in fact, an image of their actual environment. Why the spotted horses no longer exist remains up for debate, but the fact that the gene was present is not. It's not clear if this phenotype presented or not, but the cave drawings left behind by our ancestors seem to indicate that it was.