Evolutionary maths
What is it that makes the human mind so unique and us humans so different from the other species we share this planet with? One thing that is universally present throughout human cultures, but absent in all other species, is language. Over the last few decades evolutionary psychologists have become increasingly interested in the role that language might have in enabling other functions in the human behavioural and cognitive repertoire. Some have argued that language is in fact a prerequisite for a whole range of other intellectual activities, including mathematics.
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What is it that makes the human mind so unique and us humans so different from the other species we share this planet with? One thing that is universally present throughout human cultures, but absent in all other species, is language. Over the last few decades evolutionary psychologists have become increasingly interested in the role that language might have in enabling other functions in the human behavioural and cognitive repertoire. Some have argued that language is in fact a prerequisite for a whole range of other intellectual activities, including mathematics.
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