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Published online 19 August 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040816-10
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Tribe without names for numbers cannot count
Amazon study fuels debate on whether the concept of numbers is innate.
A study of an Amazonian tribe is stoking fierce debate about whether people can count without numbers.
Psychologists, anthropologists and linguists have long wondered whether animals, young children or certain cultures can conceptualize numbers without the language to describe them.
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