[cogitator]

The average woman certainly doesn't look "designed to run" to me. Have you ever tried running with a baby on your hip? I have - it ain't pretty.

The first thing I thought of when reading this is the primitive societies in the Amazon rain forest and the Kalahari Desert (the latter being the !Kung people). In those societies the only "runners" are the men -- the women stay in the villages while the men hunt. Attributes in favor of running capability would be genetically favored even if the women didn't run much.

[mike182d]

Attributes in favor of running capability would be genetically favored even if the women didn't run much.

Wow. I had no idea that genes were so intelligent and possessed the sufficient mental capacity to perform analytic observations of their surrounding and make the necessary changes based upon their findings. :-)