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Why humans walk round and round in circles

By Brian Brawdy | Published: August 20, 2009

I’ve done it. You’ve done it. We are all guilty of it. But why do we walk in circles when we are lost? A great study, “Walking Straight into Circles” was reported on today in Current Biology and expanded upon in ScienceNOW with the article “Why we Walk in Circles.” Seems when we are lost, and have no visual clue [...]