Episode
Daniel Lieberman on Evolution and Exercise: The Science of Human Endurace
COMPLEXITY · Aug 3, 2022 · 53 min
Human beings are distinctly weird. We live for a very long time after we stop reproducing, move completely differently than all of our closest relatives, lack the power of chimpanzees and other primates but completely outdo most other terrestrial mammals in a contest of endurance. If we think about bodies as hypotheses about the stable features of their ancestral environments, what do the…