Early humans should have gone extinct, except we have one advantage over the other animals. Fire, and tools. OK, that’s two.
So, it wasn’t the ability to count.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
I’ll stick with facts while others pursue fantasy.