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The invention of numbers

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Is There Something Special About Three and Below?

Our brains are naturally predisposed to discriminate one, two and three. We have what some have referred to as an exact number for these smaller quantities. But if you get more than that, it get's a little bit tricky. And this is, this is true in the petaha, but it's also true in the other groups that this has been tested. Back to Mail Online home. Back to the page you came from.

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