The prehistory of number concept

The prehistory of number concept

Carey leaves unaddressed an important evolutionary puzzle: In the absence of a numeral list, how could a concept of natural number ever have arisen in the first place? Here we suggest that the initial development of natural number must have bootstrapped on a material culture scaffold of some sort, a...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Behavioral and brain sciences 2011-06, Vol.34 (3), p.142-144
Hauptverfasser: Overmann, Karenleigh A., Wynn, Thomas, Coolidge, Frederick L.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Archaeology
Correspondence
Identity formation
Linguistics
Number systems
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Zusammenfassung:Carey leaves unaddressed an important evolutionary puzzle: In the absence of a numeral list, how could a concept of natural number ever have arisen in the first place? Here we suggest that the initial development of natural number must have bootstrapped on a material culture scaffold of some sort, and illustrate how this might have occurred using strings of beads.
ISSN:0140-525X
1469-1825
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X10002189