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Wayfinding : the science and mystery of how humans navigate the world / M. R. O'Connor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 354 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250096968 (hardcover)
  • 1250096960 (hardcover)
Other title:
  • Science and mystery of how humans navigate the world
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.14/2 23
Contents:
The last roadless place -- Memoryscapes -- Why children are amnesiacs -- Birds, bees, wolves and whales -- Navigation made us human -- The storytelling computer -- Supernomads -- Dreamtime cartography -- Space and time in the brain -- Among the lightning people -- You say left, I say north -- Empiricism at Harvard -- Astronauts of Oceania -- Navigating climate change -- This is your brain on GPS -- Lost Tesla -- Epilogue : our genius is topophilia.
Summary: "At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity."--from publisher.
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Print Athens Non-fiction 152.142 OC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 40000000014727
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-343) and index.

The last roadless place -- Memoryscapes -- Why children are amnesiacs -- Birds, bees, wolves and whales -- Navigation made us human -- The storytelling computer -- Supernomads -- Dreamtime cartography -- Space and time in the brain -- Among the lightning people -- You say left, I say north -- Empiricism at Harvard -- Astronauts of Oceania -- Navigating climate change -- This is your brain on GPS -- Lost Tesla -- Epilogue : our genius is topophilia.

"At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity."--from publisher.