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An entertaining investigation?of the?numerical abilities?of animals?and our own appetite for arithmetic?The?philosopher?Bertrand Russell once observed that realizing that a pair of apples and the passage of two days could somehow both be represented by the?concept?we call??two??was one of the most astonishing discoveries anyone had ever made.?So?what do we make of the?incredible?fact?that?animals?seem to?have?inherent mathematical abilities??As?cognitive psychologist Brian Butterworth shows?us?in Can Fish?Count?,?many ?simple? animals?such as bees, which?count trees and fence posts, and guppies, which can size up groups?have a sense of numbers. And unlike humans,?they?don?t?need to be taught.??In?telling?animals? stories,?Butterworth?shines new light on?one?of our most ancient questions:?Just?where, exactly, do numbers come from??He?reveals?how insights?gleaned?from studying animals can help us make better sense of?our?own abilities.?Full of?discovery?and?delight,?Can Fish
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