Why Are Humans Slower Than Most Animals?
Compared to some mammals humans are a relatively slow animal. Why didn't we evolve to be faster? Why Your Body Is Built To Run Long Distances ▻▻▻▻ bit.ly/1LETcmJ Sign Up For The...
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People tell me I’m slow. Yeah well, you’re slow. Everybody’s slow. We’re all slow. Yaaaaay! If you’ve ever raced a cheetah and you’re not named Usain Bolt, you probably lost. Or heck if you even tried racing against your cat, I bet you still lost. From horses, to dogs, to birds, it seems the entire animal kingdom is faster and stronger than we are. Why? Well we evolved to fit into our own ecological niche. But even compared to our nearest relatives, the chimpanzee and bonobos, we are considerably weaker. We weren’t always this way. According to Dan Lieberman, a biological anthropologist at Harvard University, our “chimp-like ancestor was like a power athlete that was much stronger and faster than humans, but they had no endurance." But we tr...
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People tell me I’m slow. Yeah well, you’re slow. Everybody’s slow. We’re all slow. Yaaaaay! If you’ve ever raced a cheetah and you’re not named Usain Bolt, you probably lost. Or heck if you even tried racing against your cat, I bet you still lost. From horses, to dogs, to birds, it seems the entire animal kingdom is faster and stronger than we are. Why? Well we evolved to fit into our own ecological niche. But even compared to our nearest relatives, the chimpanzee and bonobos, we are considerably weaker. We weren’t always this way. According to Dan Lieberman, a biological anthropologist at Harvard University, our “chimp-like ancestor was like a power athlete that was much stronger and faster than humans, but they had no endurance." But we tr...
