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BI 137 Brian Butterworth: Can Fish Count?

Brain Inspired

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The Origins of Language

According to chonsky and his followers, our ability to count is really consequential upon our ability. And the reason for this is because we can count as high as we like with words. So in your and your thoughts, a counting and numerical ability must have preceded language,. But do you think that it had anything to do with development of language in the human species?

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