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Humans at maximum limits for height, lifespan and physical performance, study suggests
Science Daily ^ | December 6, 2017 | Frontiers

Posted on 12/06/2017 6:40:58 PM PST by sparklite2

However, when researchers considered how environmental and genetic limitations combined may affect the ability for us to reach these upper limits, our effect on the environment was found to play a key role.

"This will be one of the biggest challenges of this century as the added pressure from anthropogenic activities will be responsible for damaging effects on human health and the environment." Prof. Toussaint predicts. "The current declines in human capacities we can see today are a sign that environmental changes, including climate, are already contributing to the increasing constraints we now have to consider."

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KEYWORDS: fakescience
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Who could have imagined that delaying the next Ice Age would have such catastrophic effects?
1 posted on 12/06/2017 6:40:59 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2

Global Warming will cause decreased performance at future Olympics?


2 posted on 12/06/2017 6:42:27 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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It’s already happened to Russia!!!


3 posted on 12/06/2017 6:43:50 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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"...CLIMATE!..."


Dang, it took all the way to the third sentence for that pivotal word to appear.

4 posted on 12/06/2017 6:45:43 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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5 posted on 12/06/2017 6:48:20 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: sparklite2

Going beyond #FakeScience into the nebulous realms of #AbsurdScience!


6 posted on 12/06/2017 6:51:48 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: seawolf101

7 posted on 12/06/2017 6:56:56 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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Letting duh dumbasses breed through subsidizing them cradle to grave is contributing to human decline, NOT cLIEmate change.


8 posted on 12/06/2017 6:58:17 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: sparklite2

More “climate change” bullsheisht.


9 posted on 12/06/2017 6:59:31 PM PST by A strike (Television is almost as racist as Madison Ave.)
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To: TigersEye

Comte said there was no way we’d ever know what starts are made of. This defeatist speculation has no better foundation and is nothing but a warmist’s wet dream.


10 posted on 12/06/2017 7:00:51 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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When I read the title my first thought was ‘they determined the limits of human development by studying the current state of humans didn’t they?’

They must have, they can’t study what humans will be and they obviously haven’t studied the historical course of humanity.


11 posted on 12/06/2017 7:06:46 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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Well, Ruth Badar Ginsburg is anyway......


12 posted on 12/06/2017 7:06:58 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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+1


13 posted on 12/06/2017 7:11:05 PM PST by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go. Dump McConnman, to)
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Humans could do much better with an improved diet and more exercise.

It’s pretty hard for a culture to give up on quick food and labor saving devices.


14 posted on 12/06/2017 7:16:35 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: sparklite2

I think it is the food that is available to all, good medicine, pretty healthy diets and vitamins over the past 50-60 years have produced two generations that are probably about maxed out but I would not be surprised if man gets bigger in the future due to bio-technology and selective breeding.


15 posted on 12/06/2017 7:31:23 PM PST by Jolla
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Well, Ruth Badar Ginsburg is anyway......

Weekend at Bernies Ruths.

16 posted on 12/06/2017 7:34:36 PM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: G Larry

General fitness probably peaked in the 1940’s to 60’s. So many people now do very little or no manual labor. Worse, bad habits are killing people. Overeating, bad foods and drug abuse are probably about to pass smoking if they haven’t already.


17 posted on 12/06/2017 7:37:22 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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Yep, I graduated in 71 and our high school had state championships in football and wrestling several times from 69-71.

Most of those star athletes are either dead or severely health impaired now.

You might have expected them to sail through their 60’s.


18 posted on 12/06/2017 7:43:32 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: sparklite2
maybe so


19 posted on 12/06/2017 7:57:07 PM PST by Pollard (TRUMP 2020)
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Boy, if I’m as good as it gets humanity is doomed. And if the purpose of man is to sprout ear and nose hair, it should be.


20 posted on 12/06/2017 7:59:12 PM PST by Billthedrill
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