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Science 19 November 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5444, pp. 1483 - 1484
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5444.1483
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NEUROSCIENCE:
The Brain's Number-Crunching Power

A review by Marc Hauser

What Counts How Every Brain Is Hardwired for Math
Brian Butterworth
Free Press, New York, 1999. 432 pp. $26. ISBN 0-684-85417-1. (1)

Writing for a general audience, Butterworth marshals evidence from a wide range of studies to argue that humans are endowed with an innate number module.
The author is in the Department of Psychology and the Program in Neurosciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. E-mail: hauser{at}wjh.harvard.edu

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