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Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)

New Books in Neuroscience

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What Do You Know About Navigation of Early Humans?

What do yo know about navigation of early homedan cultures, and was different to navigation of people nowadays? It's a good question. A lot of it is, a lot of that work is sarily speculative. Er, because we can only know so much about, say, i write in the book about the difference between the andethals and early humans. And from those remains, we know that neanderthal brains were quite different in shape to a early human brains. We know thatNeanderthals had really kind of flattened skulls. Early humans seemed to have this very rapidns of part of our brain that gave us a sort of classically modern human shape of a rounded

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