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Linguistic and cognitive anthropologist Stephen Chrisomalis reckons with numbers and the mind.
The story of a numerical system nearly consigned to oblivion.
A host of studies examining animals in their ecological environments suggest that they have evolved to use numbers in order to exploit food sources, avoid predators, and reproduce.