Mundurucu

Stanislas Dehaene of the Federative Institute of Research in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and his co-workers report in Science that both adults and children of an Amazonian tribe called the Mundurucu, who have had almost no exposure to the linear counting scale of the industrialized world, judge magnitudes on a logarithmic basis.

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As more and more of the Mundurucu perished, the weaker became the immobilizing hex they had cast.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

"But the wizard Evyndd is dead, slain by the glorious Mundurucu at the battle for Kyll-Bar-Bennid."

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

By the time he landed on his belly, the stunned but unharmed Mundurucu had managed to regain some control.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

A second Mundurucu was transformed into a flaming torch, and then another, and another.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

Teeth bared, he started toward the cowering knot of surviving Mundurucu -- only to find his path blocked by one of the lumbering black shapes.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

If the Mundurucu were concentrating their malignant energies on him, maybe one or more of his friends would have a chance to escape.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

Suffused in the local tones of red, it projected an air of normalcy they had not experienced since the Mundurucu had banished color from the Gowdlands.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

But from the congregated Mundurucu, there rose whoops of delight accompanied by a surge of revitalized, depraved laughter.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

Though dominated by the omnipresent drabness that had been imposed by the Mundurucu, the daylight in which they now found themselves was a welcome change from all the monocolored alien skies they had trekked beneath during the past weeks.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001