Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath the waves (2016)

Re:Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath... by Hitton on Thursday August 29, 2019 @08:32PM (#20834984)

Not sure what you consider it "this sort of thing", but native speakers of Australian aboriginal language Guugu Yimithirr have nearly superhuman sense of direction. They can automatically tell where is north, south, east, and west.

http://pages.ucsd.edu/~jhaviland/Publications/ETHOSw.Diags.p...

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Re:Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath... by BurningFrog on Thursday August 29, 2019 @10:36PM (#20835533)

Sounds like something that might have had survival value during 50.000 years in a big nondescript landscape.

Yes, I'm making an evolutionary guess.

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Re:Children of a Thailand tribe who see with clarity beneath... by soperj on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:46PM (#20835836)

I believe they don't actually use left and right, but use the cardinal direction instead. So it's something they need to be constantly aware of. Ie: their kids song would go "Put your south hand in, put your south hand out.."

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