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The innate schema of natural numbers does not explain historical, cultural, and developmental differences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2008
Abstract
Rips et al.'s proposition cannot account for the facts that (1) a historical look at the word number systems suggests that the concept of natural numbers has been progressively elaborated; (2) people from cultures without an elaborate counting system do not master the concept of natural numbers; (3) children take time to master natural numbers; and (4) the competing advantage of the postulated math schema in the natural selection process is not obvious.
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