How do we navigate. Space and time without maps and GPS

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The book raises many questions related to the skill of orientation in space, both in animals and in humans. What makes animals capable of migrating and navigating with amazing precision? How did our ancestors, with their inherent adventurism, spread around the world without maps and navigational tools? How does our brain perceive time and space? “I asked myself: what happens when we trust navigation to a gadget? Even the previous generation of navigational instruments - compass, chronometer, sextant, radio, radar - required us to pay attention to the world around us. The search for an answer led me into unexpected areas. What exactly does a person do when he navigates the terrain? How are we different from birds, bees, and whales—and why? How has the speed and convenience of technology affected how we move around the world and our sense of our place in it? The search for material for this book in various fields of human activity - from the ecology of movement and psychology to paleoarchaeology, from linguistics and artificial intelligence to anthropology - revealed to me an amazing story of the origin of human orientation abilities, as well as their influence on the evolution of our species. (Maura O'Connor)

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Publication language: Russian

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