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The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a sense of quantity, sometimes called "numerosity," appears across a ...

Counting feels utterly effortless to adults, who are unlikely to even remember when or how they picked up this useful, apparently automatic skill. Yet when you think about it, counting is a remarkable ...