How did humans go from a general sense of quantity - a pair, a few, many - to inventing numbers 🔢 ? Why are counting systems so different across global cultures?

An ERC-funded team with researchers from different countries tries to find out: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01429-6

🇪🇺#EUfunded

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1511690247708438536