Numbers and the making of us: counting and the course of human cultures

Prologue: On the success of our species

Part One. Numbers pervade the human experience: Numbers woven into our present

Numbers carved into our past

A numerical journey around the world today

Beyond number words: other kinds of numeric language

Part Two. Worlds without numbers: Anumeric people today

Quantities in the minds of young children

Quantities in the minds of animals

Part Three. Numbers and the shaping of our lives: Inventing numbers and arithmetic

Numbers and culture: subsistence and symbolism

Transformative tools.