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Re:Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Pro... by j2kun on Sunday September 08, 2013 @06:33PM (#6350704)
I don't think you realize how much time you spent learning to read and write, considering that every waking moment you're surrounded by things with text on them.

Also, you have a pretty skewed idea of how evolution works. How long do you think it took for evolution to "wire our brains" to learn to write quickly?

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Re:Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Pro... by cliveowen on Sunday September 08, 2013 @06:37PM (#6350721)
The fact that we're continually surrounded by written text only helps explain why we haven't that much difficulty learning how to read it.

As long as the time it took for evolution to rewire our brains, I'd say more than a thousand of years, it's not like writing was invented yesterday.

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Re:Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Pro... by j2kun on Sunday September 08, 2013 @09:27PM (#6351350)
What proportion of the world was literate a thousand years ago?
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