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Amazonian tribe has no calendar and no concept of time

Tonka

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...e-has-no-calendar-and-no-concept-of-time.html

Amazonian tribe has no calendar and no concept of time

The Amondawa people who live deep in the Amazonian rainforests of Brazil have no watches or calendars and live their lives to the patterns of day and night and the rainy and dry seasons.
They also have no age ? and mark the transition from childhood to adulthood to old age by changing their name.
The team of researchers, led by University of Portsmouth, said that it is the first time they have been able to prove time is not a deeply entrenched universal human concept, as previously thought...more from the source.
 
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Geometry skills are innate, Amazon tribe study suggests

The Mundurucu do not even have words for geometric concepts
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Tests given to an Amazonian tribe called the Mundurucu suggest that our intuitions about geometry are innate.
 
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