The invention of numbers
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The Petaha, Are They a Numeric?
The peteha live in a remote part of the amerson and a society who ar traditional hunter gatherers. The language lacks singular and plural distinction, so it's really a numeric. And so there seems to be something specific about the petaha that they're not that interested in numbers. You could argue that it's because they're generally somewhat ethmocentric. They don't really want that many things from the outside.
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