Carl Zimmer reports:
Despite the late appearance of higher mathematics, there is growing evidence that numbers are not really a recent invention - not even remotely. Cantlon and others are showing that our species seems to have an innate skill for math, a skill that may have been shared by our ancestors going back least 30 million years.
(Hat tip: 3QD)
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/11/counting-cavemen/193775/
