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Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification (QUANTA)

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About QUANTA

Things come in specific quantities, and numbers are everywhere: when we trade, participate in a competition, or try to get a pandemic under control.

Hovedinnhold

The symbolic systems that capture such quantities are our cognitive tools for quantification, and we employ them to understand and transform the world.

  • When, why, and how did humans develop these tools?
  • Why do they differ so massively across cultures?

Finding answers to these questions is the prime goal of QUANTA. To achieve this, we will combine approaches and methods from anthropology, archaeology, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, linguistics, and psychology. If successful, our project will transform our understanding of how a fundamental (and uniquely) human characteristic emerged and diversified: our ability to quantify.

Principal Investigators:

Andrea Bender, Department of Psychosocial Science, Faculty of Psychology, & Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), UiB, Norway.

Francesco D’Errico, CNRS / University of Bordeaux; France [& Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), UiB]

Russell Gray, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Rafael Núñez, University of California San Diego, USA

Funding:

Funded by ERC with Synergy Grant

12.11.2021