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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Humans are comparatively poor athletes on land. The world's fastest humans can only sprint about 23 miles per hour for about half a minute. Humans almost always hunt with weapons because no person could ever match a chimp for speed, power, and agility.
#2 The first major transformation in human evolution was bipedalism, the ability to stand and walk on two feet. The...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"This highly engaging landmark work, a natural history of exercise--by the author of the best seller The Story of the Human Body--seeks to answer a fundamental question: were you born to run or rest The first three parts of Exercised roughly follow the evolutionary story of human physical activity and inactivity, even as each chapter shatters a particular myth about exercise. Because we cannot understand physical activity without understanding its...