Pietro Gaietto is known as a sculptor who recomposes ordinary artefacts intosymbolic messages, and has published three books in the field. With his wife, Licia, a psychotherapist and painter of reknown, he has explored many
sites of western Europe and is peerless in the discovery and identification of paletolithic sculptures and monuments.

He has now added to his prior works what appears to me as a masterpiece of aesthetic theory. He has fitted along a timeline using conventional chronology every imaginable shape and form that the evolution of species has provided through the ages. He then reveals how with the advent of homo sapiens the human has repeated natural evolution, bringing forth one by one in the history of art, from the Paletolithic until today, all of the forms that nature has evolved, in quick time, and in an evolutionary procession
that imitates the long path taken by nature. There is no work like it, no theory like it. Clear in style, with many fine illustrations, it should be a prized companion for every investigator of the ultimate connections between art and nature.

Alfred De Grazia

Professor of Social Theory (ret.)

New York University