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Science 20 August 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5687, p. 1093
DOI: 10.1126/science.305.5687.1093a
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COGNITION:
Life Without Numbers in the Amazon

Constance Holden

In an article published online this week by Science (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1094492), a psycholinguist demonstrates that among members of a tiny tribe in the Amazon jungle that has no words for numbers beyond two, the ability to conceptualize numbers is no better than it is among pigeons, chimps, or human infants.

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