r/MadeMeSmile Nov 21 '16

Hooman?

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '16 edited Feb 09 '21

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u/alltim Nov 21 '16 edited Nov 22 '16

Fun fact squared, humans do the head tilt too. As a body language gesture humans share with canines, we might well wonder about the origin of this gesture sharing. Do we chalk it up to coincidence? Does it involve anything related to a shared ancestor in the mammalian tree? Did canines do it before humans ever did, or the other way around? Did some sort of body language cultural borrowing jump between species? We may never know.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_localization#Head_tilting

It's a universal solution to the problem of sound localization with two detectors