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lack of complex number systems in hunter-gatherer societies, Pinker notes that “both number
words and numerical reasoning…developed from existing cognitive resources” (139). It is not
the other way around. Language and abstract reasoning -like number concepts- are products of
brain states (thus evolved), like sensitivity to rhythm and pattern.
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