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Science 3 January 1997:
Vol. 275. no. 5296, pp. 29 - 30
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5296.29a
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Research News

Nigel Williams

London--The effort to put human mental activity under the evolutionary spotlight is triggering a remarkable burst of collaboration between biologists and psychologists. Thirty of them recently gathered at a workshop here to discuss recent findings. Among them are results implying deep evolutionary roots for the mental mechanisms behind numeracy--the ability to assess bulk or amount--and the tendency to discount future rewards in favor of present ones.

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