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#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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In this book the author, a Harvard evolutionary biologist presents an account of how the human body has evolved over millions of years, examining how an increasing disparity between the needs of Stone Age bodies and the realities of the modern world are fueling a paradox of greater longevity and chronic disease. It illuminates the major transformations that contributed key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based...
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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...
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