Natural Navigation: How Humans Find Direction Without GPS

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Katy Reiss and Laura Fawks Lapole explore the ancient human ability of natural navigation in this episode.

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe and rediscover a skill humans were never meant to lose. In this episode of Wildly Curious, Katy Reiss and Laura Fawks Lapole explore natural navigation—the ancient human ability to find direction by reading the land, sea, sky, plants, and animals instead of relying on GPS. Long before maps and satellites, humans navigated forests and oceans using patterns, movement, and observation. And the wild part? That ability never disappeared—we just stopped practicing it. 🌿 H...

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Hosts: Katy Reiss, Laura Fawks Lapole

Topics covered

• natural navigation
• human skills
• GPS alternatives
• observation
• nature

Keywords

• natural navigation
• GPS
• humans
• land
• sea
• sky
• plants
• animals

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