Amazon Children "Spontaneously" Understand Geometry

[sugarimp]

Davide Castelvecchi, for National Geographic News, January 19, 2006

Children of an isolated Indian group in the Amazon jungle have a seemingly natural understanding of geometry concepts, even though their language doesn't have words for them, according to a new study.This doesn't necessarily make the children unique, the study authors say. Instead

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[sollersuk]

That would come as no surprise at all to Plato.

[hollowman]

Or to any evolutionary biologist.

[ajollypyruvate]

Or anyone with a graduate degree in math. They tend to remark on the inherent ability of children to grasp the elements of topology.

[ajollypyruvate]

Spontaneously? They go along not understanding anything about geometery & then *poof!* complete knowledge is dropped into their brains?

Perhaps a better word would have been "inherently".