Whenever we look into history or culture of any geographical patches it is very common to find language and script identity as generic way to find their evolution. So it might comes into mind frequently what is the basic science behind this whole story.
The "naturalistic" point of view may ben can see here
Butterworth, Brian; Reeve, Robert; Reynolds, Fiona; Lloyd, Delyth (2008). "Numerical thought with and without words: Evidence from indigenous Australian children". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (35): 13179–13184
George Lakoff, 1987. Women, Fire and Dangerous Things. Univ. of Chicago Press.
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, 1999. Philosophy in the Flesh. Basic Books
George Lakoff and Rafael Núñez, 2000, Where Mathematics Comes From. Basic Books
And the "cultural" (and a bit platonic) roots of the mathemathics are discussed here
PÁRAMO, Guillermo. Mito, lógica y geometría: algunas razones para la aplicación de métodos formales al estudio del mito. Colombia Ciencia y Tecnología, Bogotá. v. 10, n. 4, p. 11-13, marzo, 1993.
PÁRAMO, Guillermo and Victor ALBIS, Antropología y matemáticas. Mathesis, México, v. 3., n. 2, p. 163-167, mayo, 1987.
Páramo, G. (2008). Mito-lógicas: Antropología simbólica y razonamiento matemático (parte 1). Santiago de Cali: Universidad Icesi Source: http://bibliotecadigital.icesi.edu.co/biblioteca_digital/handle/item/3582
Mito lógica y matemática. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9W1MUnla2k
I don't know it if this one is appropriate to your question, but i suggest you Noam Chomsky and B. H.Skinner books (and fight about it). Also i like it Sapir (1929).
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Sorry, it seems interesting, but I dont understand exactly what you are asking?
About the name of a science (namely evolutionary linguistics)? About the relation of language spoken and written as a way to make science ?
Thank you for giving very nice and appropriate input. @Rafael , Sir, the purpose is not to put someone in brain game while just to explore simple science behind evolution of language, script and number in all the civilization irrespective of geographical constrain.
Hi Saurav. Language, script & number are 3 different (overlapping) things.
Human language became possible through different preadaptations: gibbon-like song, vocal learning, voluntary breath-holding, suction feeding, DHA-rich nutrition (google e.g. researchGate marc verhaegen).
Human numbering might be much older than usu.thought (c 0.5 Ma!), see e.g. the recent paper of José Joordens, Stephen Munro cs 2015 "Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving" Nature doi 10.1038/nature13962, where the shell engraving according to some might have been some sort of counting notation (i.e. "script").
IOW, the evolution of language, "script" & number is surely a lot older than the H.sapiens last common ancestor (c 150 or 200 ka), i.e. common to all human cultures & civilisations.
Egyptian & Sumerian civilisations (begin c 5 ka?) needed astronomy to calculate the overflows of the Nile resp.Tigris-Euphrate. Astronomy (based on language, script & number) = beginning of "organized" science?
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