Slide Rule Sense: Amazonian Indigenous Culture Demonstrates Universal Mapping Of Number Onto Space
03:45 31-05-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
The ability to map numbers onto a line is universal. But for an Amazonian tribe, this mapping is not linear but logarithmic. The finding illuminates both the nature and the limits of the human predisposition to measurement, a foundation for science, engineering, and much of our modern culture.
Slide Rule Sense: Amazonian Indigenous Culture Demonstrates A Universal Mapping Of Number Onto Space
21:45 30-05-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
The ability to map numbers onto a line, a foundation of all mathematics, is universal, says a study published in Science, but the form of this universal mapping is not linear but logarithmic. The findings illuminate both the nature and the limits of the human predisposition to measurement, a foundation for science, engineering, and much of our modern culture.
Stonehenge Could Have Been Resting Place For Royalty
03:45 30-05-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Archaeologists at the University of Sheffield have revealed new radiocarbon dates of human cremation burials at Stonehenge, which indicate that the monument was used as a cemetery from its inception just after 3000 B.C. until well after the large stones went up around 2500 B.C.
Altruism In Social Insects Is A Family Affair
00:45 30-05-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
The contentious debate about why insects evolved to put the interests of the colony over the individual has been reignited by new research from the University of Leeds, showing that they do so to increase the chances that their genes will be passed on.
Did Walking On Two Feet Begin With A Shuffle?
21:45 29-05-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
A pair of researchers have developed a model that suggests shuffling emerged millions of years ago as a precursor to walking on two feet as a way of saving metabolic energy by a common ancestor of today primates.
Amazonian Indigenous Culture Demonstrates A Universal Mapping Of Number Onto Space
21:45 29-05-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
The ability to map numbers onto a line, a foundation of all mathematics, is universal, says a study published in Science, but the form of this universal mapping is not linear but logarithmic. The findings illuminate both the nature and the limits of the human predisposition to measurement, a foundation for science, engineering, and much of our modern culture.
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