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welcome to the cocky ride home for for Thursday, February 3rd, 2022.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

When did we start counting?

Are numbers just a modern human concept?

Plus, we have more details about the impending end of the International Space Station as focus turns

ever more to the moon and Mars, and a new search engine that only gives you one result,

and it's always a book that was published before 1927. Here are some of the cool things

from the news today.

Are we humans the only species that counts and engages with numbers?

And whether or not we are, is it only our anatomically modern versions of ourselves that have done so?

How long ago did humans start counting? The whole concept of numbers and counting is something

that can easily make your head spin when you think about it for a minute. And it turns out that

the field of numbers' origins is a pretty empty one, although that's been changing recently,

thanks in part to funding from the European Research Council for a project called the Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification, or Quanta.

Quanta is funding work by archaeologists studying ancient numerical notations,

evolutionary biologists looking at the deep origins of words for numbers, and cognitive scientists,

anthropologists, and psychologists who are studying contemporary number systems across cultures

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