I'd disagree that "counting" is innate. The mental recognition of scale and quantity may be innate, but "counting" seems to be a more elaborate matter of embedd

I'd disagree that "counting" is innate. The mental recognition of scale and quantity may be innate, but "counting" seems to be a more elaborate matter of embedding scale and quantity recognition into an abstract mental or linguistic framework. That is, to count you need to understand number, but to make decisions about scale and quantity, you don't.