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In one unusual study, people were asked to classify over a hundred examples of local specimens into related species. The people who took part in this experiment were the Aguaruna, a tribal people living in the forest in northern Peru. The following results were found: men’s classification systems had more sub-categories (in other words, they introduced greater differentiation) and more consistency. More striking, the criteria that the Aguaruna men used to decide which animals belonged together m
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― The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism
― The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism
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There is a sort of precritical thinking where many ideas seem right intuitively until exploring the reasons behind them reveals otherwise - even in the mundane. For example, it seems right that bats are flying rats and owls are flying cats; or that 'w' should be pronounced 'double-v' and 'm' should be pronounced 'double-n'. But biology, taxonomy, and historical linguistics might disagree. This is perhaps the purpose of education.
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