[ElkGroveDan]

This should stimulate some lively discussion, not to mention photos.

[camle]

calling bruce springsteen!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

For a creature that's "made for running" we certainly don't run very fast.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

[Lee Heggy]

Fish gotta swim
Birds gotta fly
I love one man till...

I think they're onto something here.

[Rytwyng]

What a silly theory. Any quadruped can outrun us -- even quadrupedal apes.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It's from chasing buses.

[SBprone]

Humans were born to run. And to walk.

But I don't believe they were born to jog. Shin splints, stress fractures and spine problems are the reward for splitting the difference between running and walking, and then doing it for years on end.

[Beckwith]

Someone forward this post to Nick the Greek.

[Ignatz]

Big buttocks are also important

Bwahahahahaha!!!!!!! Can you say "ghetto-booty"?
I knew you could.

[mike182d]

To the best of my knowledge, there is absolutely no proof of evolution occuring at the macro- level. We have observed it at the micro- level, as some species have undergone slight changes in color or size, but in the entire history of our observation of nature we have never ever witnessed, nor have evidence, one species completely changing into another.

There are so many flaws in this "law" of evolution that I cannot help but laugh hysterically at anyone who takes this seriously as an explanation of the generation of species.

[Porterville]

I love running. Funny thing, the eliptical machine actually has improved my form and is helping to make me faster.

[diamond6]

"Humans were born to run..."

Humans were meant to be born.

[Junior]

"We do it because we are good at it. We enjoy it and we have all kinds of specializations that permit us to run well," said Daniel Liberman, a professor of anthropology at Harvard University in Massachusetts.

Bull puckey. I hate running. It kills my knees and ankles. Only pointy-headed fitness freaks think running is good for you.

[Maceman]

They suspect modern humans evolved from their ape-like ancestors about 2 million years ago so they could hunt and scavenge for food over large distances. But the development of physical features that enabled humans to run entailed a trade off -- the loss of traits that were useful for being a tree-climber.

I find Elaine Morgan's Aquatic Ape Theory to be the most credible.

[HamiltonJay]

Sounds to me this researcher has a bum fetish

[Fatalis]

Heads up.

[Van Jenerette]

See Kate Run. Run Kate Run.

[zygoat]

I stand erect and have an opposable thumb so that I can get the beer off of the top shelf at the liquor store.

[1Old Pro]

No mention of our knees.....the first thing to go under the pounding of running.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

If this theory is true, then why haven't the other apelike critters that run evolved into our physical structure? Why is there still a difference?

Answer: because G-- created all critters. And he created us with the ability to evolve -- BUT ONLY WITHIN THE LIMITS OF OUR GENETIC CODING.

We are separated genetically from the other primates. Always have been, always will be.

The fact that these evolutionists have to keep citing assumed behavior as a reason for evolving proves that they acknowledge that environmental circumstances trigger our evolving within our limits and that we never can evolve beyond our limits. If we could, we'd all be able to run as fast as a leopard all day long because that would have provided the most assured success in hunting. But leopards can't run fast for very long. And we can't run very fast at all. We've had enough time to evolve to perfection, but we haven't. We're limited by our genes.