Number sense closely linked to survival and intelligence Number sense is a fundamental ability in animals' perception of the world and increases their chances of survival. It is also an important ...

(Humans demonstrate this approximate sense of quantity, too. But they also associate numerosities with specific number symbols, and a different population of neurons represents those exact quantities.

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