Evolution can be viewed as a series of mathematical abstraction which is always multiplying, or other words the expansion of the subject matter. Abstraction first, which also applies to many animals, is about numbers: a statement that two apples and two oranges (for example) have the same number.

In addition to knowing how to enumerate physical objects, prehistoric humans also recognize the magnitude chopping abstract way, like time - days, seasons, years. Basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) naturally followed.