How We Navigate. Space and Time Without Maps and GPS

The book raises many questions related to the skill of navigating space for both animals and humans. What allows animals to migrate and navigate with astonishing accuracy? How did our ancestors, with their inherent adventurous spirit, spread across the world without maps and navigation tools? How does our brain perceive time and space?
«I asked myself: what happens when we trust navigation to a gadget? Even the previous generation of navigation devices — compass, chronometer, sextant, radio, radar — required our attention to the surrounding world. The search for answers led me to unexpected areas. What exactly does a person do when navigating in unfamiliar terrain? How are we different from birds, bees, and whales — and why? How have the speed and convenience of technology affected our movement through the world and our understanding of our place within it? The search for material for this book across various fields of human activity — from movement ecology and psychology to paleoarchaeology, from linguistics and artificial intelligence to anthropology — revealed to me the incredible history of human navigation abilities and their influence on the evolution of our species».