No Sense of Direction? Blame Your Ancestors

Johns Hopkins researchers confirm what we’ve all always suspected—it is your mom’s fault that you’re always getting lost!

“We found that people with a rare genetic disorder cannot use one of the very basic systems of navigation that is present in humans as early as 18 months and shared across a wide range of species,” Landau said. “To our knowledge, this is the first evidence from human studies of a link between the missing genes and the system that we use to reorient ourselves in space.”

More detail here. Thank goodness for smart phones, eh?

...or not.

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