Human Navigation And Magnetoreception

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From ancient hunter-gatherer to modern day city-dweller, all humans needed to find their way from one place to another without getting lost. Nowadays, on unfamiliar journeys, most people rely on printed maps and manufactured compasses. Yet, through most of Man's evolutionary past, his only map was in his head and his only compasses were in the world around him. Research at Manchester University led, in 1980, to the claim that, during such 'natural' navigation, humans used a sense of magnetism (or magnetoreception). The claim was novel and, to some scientists, unjustified. The years since 1980 have seen so much argument and controversy as experiments were repeated and extended. As a result, much progress has now been made into this new and exciting field of research. Human Navigation and Magnetoreception is the most complete book ever written on the subject.

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