Run Like Hell

With the London Marathon this Sunday, just got quite amazed with the fact that Human are the best long endurance runners between all the animals!
So, for Luca, Marcello and anyone else that got into this running stuff: Guys, that's the way!

[from http://www.physorg.com/news95954919.html ]

Modern humans and their immediate ancestors such as Homo erectus sport
several adaptations that make humans, instead of some ferocious, furry, or
fleet creature, the animal world’s best distance runners.
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“Humans are terrible athletes in terms of power and speed, but we’re
phenomenal at slow and steady. We’re the tortoises of the animal kingdom,”
Lieberman said.
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evidence belies the long and firmly held belief that humans are the animal world’s biggest wimps and, if not for our big brains and advanced weapons, we’d be forced to subsist on fruits and vegetables, always in danger of being gobbled up by fiercer predators.
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Even the human waist, thinner and more flexible than that of our primate relatives allows us to twist our upper bodies as we run to counterbalance the slightly-off-center forces exerted as we stride with each leg.
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“We can run in conditions that no other animal can run in,” Lieberman said
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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.

Persistence Hunting!! Fckn amazing! Can you imagine that?! Hunting without weapons! Simply running.

[ Run like hell - Pink Floyd - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySO-gryuO-c ]