So, heat might suck, but it’s why we’re on top of the food chain.
This article’s absolutely fascinating. Not only are we evolved to run, but we’re evolved to run in crappy conditions. What great inspiration for summer
All together, Lieberman said, these adaptations allowed us to relentlessly pursue game in the hottest part of the day when most animals rest. Lieberman said humans likely practiced persistence hunting, chasing a game animal during the heat of the day, making it run faster than it could maintain, tracking and flushing it if it tried to rest, and repeating the process until the animal literally overheated and collapsed.
Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners
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May 10th, 2007 at 2158
[...] It is nice to know that it is our ability to not be too hairy, and not our ability to make tools, that raised us up to lord over the rest of the animal kingdom. It is a fascinating article that talks about the different traits that man evolved over thousands of years that allow us to do something as frivolous as running 26 miles down a road. (Original Source: Run Mystic) [...]