Stanislas Dehaene, Neuroscientist: "Geometrics Appeared in Humans Long Before the Birth of Figurative Art"

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While most animals have an approximate sense of numbers, only human beings are able to recognize simple geometric shapes, explains the French neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene in a new bookAfter La Bosse des maths in 1997, Les Neurones de la lecture in 2007 and many other books, the French neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, a professor at the Collège de France, devotes his new book, Le Rectangle de Lascaux, to the sense of geometry. He shows brill…