In Evolutionary Race, Humans Went the Extra Mile, Study Says

Los Angeles Times ^ | November 18, 2004 | Robert Lee Hotz, Times Staff Writer

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Humanity was born to run.

Humanity was born to run.

More than by brain size or tool-making ability, the human species was set apart from its ancestors by the ability to jog mile after lung-stabbing mile with greater endurance than any other primate, according to research published today in the journal Nature.

Indeed, human beings evolved as the cross-country stars of a primordial runner's world 2 million years before the advent of jogging shoes, tracksuits and arthroscopic knee surgery.

Mounting a challenge to the conventional wisdom about human origins, researchers at Harvard University and the University of Utah concluded that the ability to run long distances was the driving force shaping the modern human anatomy.

Such running ability could have given early humans a survival edge in scavenging on the open savannas of Africa.

The earliest humans, the researchers said, were marathon men and women from the tips of their distinctively short toes and long Achilles tendons to the tops of their biomechanically balanced heads.

"We have gone all this time somehow missing this truly important aspect of humans — this [long-distance running] behavior and its impact on the design of the human body," said University of Utah biologist Dennis Bramble, who co-wrote the study.

"Primates don't do distance running," Bramble said. "We should have recognized that humans are very odd."

[ImaGraftedBranch]

You are your own stumbling block. For sure, let's take seriously the comments of a poster that has a freeper page stating:

"Everything I ever needed to know about politics, I learned from The Simpsons"

Indeed.

In all the fields of science, those that believe in God as Creator is highest in the field of biology, and the percentages are growing. Why is that? Once we started looking into the cell, it became obvious that chance was not involved. Period.

I can't blame you, though -- you may just be young. When I took my 2nd IQ test and achieved the exact same score (145) at the young age of 22, I decided that I was too smart to think that God could exist.

Of course, intelligence does not equate with wisdom, as I found out over the years. Wisdom was granted to me, and I realized the error in my ways. Yes, I was too smart by half.

You'll come around, if you are serious about learning, and not one of those that simply go with the flow. It is a harder path, to be sure, but the benefits can't be beat.

[nomorelurker]

And this one (as I scroll down) hit the Creationism wall a lot sooner.

[Rakkasan1]

LOL!
"Does this mean the French are
the highest form of humanity?"

no, just the most self-rightous euroturds.

[Modernman]

In all the fields of science, those that believe in God as Creator is highest in the field of biology, and the percentages are growing. Why is that?

Because scientists do not see any reason why one cannot believe in both God and the theory of evolution. Most Christians feel the same way. The Pope, for example.

When I took my 2nd IQ test and achieved the exact same score (145) at the young age of 22, I decided that I was too smart to think that God could exist.

Good for you. I have decided that God probably exists and that evolution is his creation, too. Most Christians in the world agree with me.

[Dimensio]

Just remember that when you are face to face with Jesus, The Son of The Living God on Judgment Day.

Shouldn't you be more concerned with how you are going to defend your unbelief to Odin?

[Dimensio]

Hey, if folks want to consider themselves dumb animals, let em.

Ah, the old "argument from the consequences" and its sibling, "argument from wishful thinking".

Not terribly convincing to rational minds, but I find that many creationists use it as a comforting fallback.

[Dimensio]

Darwinism and evolutionism IS religion and has been since its beginnings in the 19th century, they just won't admit it.

I always have to wonder if the people spouting this lie actually believe it, or if they're just trying to deceive the weak-minded.

[buwaya]

"I have decided that God probably exists and that evolution is his creation, too. Most Christians in the world agree with me."

Ditto, but I leave out the probably.

[Dataman]

If I have to live in a pre- or post-enlightenment world, I know what I'm picking.

We all know. Postmodernism.

[mailbox1282000]

Your comments remind me of a story I once heard at a church revival. It is a common story so chances are that you may have heard a version of it.

During a flood a woman was praying on the top of the roof of her house. The water was rising fast as she prayed for her God to stop the flood. A man motored past in a boat and shouted for her to jump aboard. The woman said, "I have prayed for God to stop the flood before it gets too high. Please leave me be, for I have faith in my God." After the man departed, the flood waters continued to rise. Then, a helicopter hovered overhead and a man lowered on a sling inquired if she needed help. The woman said, "I have prayed for God to stop the flood before it gets too high. Please leave me be, for I have faith in my God." After the helicopter departed, the flood waters rose above the roof and drowned the woman.

Finally, the woman arrived in heaven and spoke with God. "Surely it was not my time to die my Lord," she said. God said, "Well, I sent you a boat and a helicopter."

I know that I evolved from an ape or a fish or an amoeba. Belief is something completely different. Period.

[y2k_free_radical]

this is junk genetics-teleological genetics

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You disagree with the properties of the organism?

[RightWingAtheist]

And we did so well before the Enlightenment...Torquemada, Attila, Caligula, Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, the Inquistion, and holy wars of variou stripes...

[King Prout]

And what's especially sad is that such recurring rebellion often makes spiritual casualties of whole families, societies and generations: people living just like yourself, without the knowledge of our Maker.

Is your god so petty, so spiteful, so wasteful of those who -assuming your god-story is correct- simply err?

If so: I would not gladly choose to worship such a being.

[nmh]

YOU made my night.

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

Nice to know an evolutionist has a sense of humor.

[nmh]

"But are you sure of the mechanism by which God created us ? Such certainty is pride itself."

Actually it is Satan, the fallen angel that thought he should be god, as you evolutionists like to think of yourselves, that caused his fall. Evolutionist emulate Satan through their godless "theories". You're too blind to see it.

As for me God's word is just fine and I find it even more reassuring when objective science supports it.

[nmh]

Again, believe you "evolved from an ape". Think so lowly of yourself. View the Judeo Christian God as an ape also since we are created in His image. In essence you are calling Him an "ape". My God is NO ape.