Wednesday May 25, 2011
The New Line:
Amazon Tribe Show Geometry is Innate
Researchers have conducted tests on an Amazonian tribe to show that our understanding of geometry is innate rather than learned.
The Mundurucu have only approximate terms for numbers and no words for shapes such as squares and triangles but they found concepts of geometry easy to grasp.
From BBC News:
The Mundurucu people's responses to the questions were roughly as accurate as those of the French and US respondents; they seemed to have an intuition about lines and geometric shapes without formal education or even the relevant words.
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