Entry Posted April 17, 2007

http://www.physorg.com/news95954919.html Human being can apparently run further and faster than any other animal. “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. … Most animals would develop hyperthermia — heat stroke in humans — after about 10 to 15 kilometers, he said.” 23:14

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MikeHickerson.com (www.mikehickerson.com):
… superior to other animals - e.g. cheetahs are faster, elephants are stronger - but it turns out that human beings are the best long-distance runners in the world. So says Daniel Lieberman of Harvard and Dennis Bramble of Utah. In anotherarticle, Lieberman notes that: Once humans start running, it only takes a bit more energy for us to run faster, Lieberman said. Other animals, on the other hand, expend a lot more energy as they speed up, particularly when they switch from a trot to a …

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… for XP as part of its IdeaStorm project, which asks customers to help the company come up with product ideas. (C/Net) ; See also: PC Market Sends Conflicting Signals (free Wall Street Journal) ? Humans are the planet's best long distance runners:hot, sweaty, natural-born runners. ? Pollock's Fractals: A retrospective of his work several years ago at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City drew lines around the block, and an award-winning film of his life and art was released at the end of 2000. Apparently "Jack the Dripper" …

My Triathlete Wife (mytriathletewife.blogspot.com):
… largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their faster, stronger, generally more dangerous animal prey", according to Harvard Anthropology Professor Daniel Lieberman onphysorg.com …

The Worship of Questions (faustin.livejournal.com):
… [IMG [info]]notangian has and gotten the same, but I need to do some research. 15 comments | post a comment Date:2007-04-21 23:53 Subject:distance running a survivalist edge for humans? Security:Publichttp://www.physorg.com/news95954919.htmlDan Lieberman's an anthropologist at Harvard, arguing that humans quite distinctly excel over other species at distance running. It's an interesting twist on human evolution, but it's not a powerful new story. Some interesting aspects of physiology …

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