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Monday, January 5, 2009

And in the Amazon: A Tribe without Numbers...

A small group of hunter-gatherers living in the Amazon rain forest is overturning some fundamental assumptions about the mind. Although linguists have long believed that counting and having words for numbers are basic, if not innate, to human cognition, the Piraha people in Brazil have no words to... Sign in to see full entry.

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