The invention of numbers
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How Does the Number System in Brazil Affect Us?
Caleb has been working with indigenous people in amazonia who have a number system. He says they are often forced to adopt numbers because outsiders want things from them. The petaha hunter, gather groups that don't rely on numbers at all, is probably a better representation of the history of our species,. Right? Only recently have numbers have we become so number obsessed and taken us away from more typical human experience.
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