"Conveniently, as it turns out, caveman-like hunts were probably conducted at a walking speed, anyway . When researchers recently followed a group of modern-day African hunters on a long, slow pursuit of their prey, the average speed was 3.8 miles per hour, a walking pace.“This notion that all humans were born to run is unscientific, ” says zoologist Karen Steudel , Ph.D. , of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who’s conducted a number of comparative studies of the evolution of human and animal locomotion. “The evolutionary record makes it clear that humans are born to be active, ” she adds. Sitting in one place wasn’t an effective survival strategy when big cats and mammoths were around and food was mobile. “That’s all we know for sure at the moment, ” she continues. “But ideas can change with new discoveries. Check back in a month.”"
Friday, June 28, 2013
Notion that all humans were born to run is unscientific
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