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In 1990, physician Frank Meshberger published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association stating that the angels, robes, and shadows surrounding God in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam are an accurate depiction of the human brain in cross-section. Meshberger theorizes that this was Michelangelo's way of symbolizing God's bestowing intelligence on the newly-created Man.
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