In a South American jungle, far from traffic circles, city squares and the Pentagon, beats the heart of geometry. Villagers belonging to an Amazonian group called the Mundurucú intuitively grasp ...

Tests taken by an Amazonian tribe indicate that children understand the basic principles of geometry without an education. Amazonian children in the Mundurucu tribe could solve basic problems with ...

Villagers belonging to an Amazonian group called the Mundurucú intuitively grasp abstract geometric principles despite having no formal math education, say psychologist Véronique Izard of Université ...