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Numbers and the Making of Us : Counting and the Course of Human Cultures /

Number concepts are a human invention developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely: recent research shows that most specific quantities are not perceived in the absence of a number system. Numbers are not innate or universal; yet without them, the world as we kno...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Everett, Caleb (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Prologue: On the Success of Our Species --   |t PART 1: Numbers Pervade the Human Experience --   |t 1. Numbers Woven into Our Present --   |t 2. Numbers Carved into Our Past --   |t 3. A Numerical Journey around the World Today --   |t 4. Beyond Number Words: Other Kinds of Numeric Language --   |t PART 2: Worlds without Numbers --   |t 5. Anumeric People Today --   |t 6. Quantities in the Minds of Young Children --   |t 7. Quantities in the Minds of Animals --   |t PART 3: Numbers and the Shaping of Our Lives --   |t 8. Inventing Numbers and Arithmetic --   |t 9. Numbers and Culture: Subsistence and Symbolism --   |t 10. Transformative Tools --   |t Notes --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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