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Letter: !Clicking your way around with the !Kung

Published 4 October 2017

From Leslie Eisenberg, Oregon, Wisconsin, US

You report how people who are blind can “see” like bats (9 September, p 12). I wonder if anyone has looked for a connection between echolocation and the language “clicks” made in !Kung and certain other languages spoken in Africa.

Issue no. 3146 published 7 October 2017

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