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1 posted on 09/11/2007 7:51:28 AM PDT by blam
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Early Humans Walked Perculiarly
2 posted on 09/11/2007 7:52:52 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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This ancient human certainly struggles to run. Interesting article.


3 posted on 09/11/2007 7:53:15 AM PDT by VR-21
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I still don’t understand how we could have evolved.


5 posted on 09/11/2007 7:56:12 AM PDT by wastedyears (George Orwell was a clairvoyant.)
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A University of Manchester study - presented to the British Association for the Advancement of Science Festival of Science in York- proposes that if early humans lacked an Achilles tendon, as modern chimps and gorillas do, then their ability to run would have been severely compromised... "How we evolved from our common ancestor with chimpanzees six million years ago is a fundamental question," said Dr Bill Sellers.
No, the interpretation of fossil forms in the study as being ancestral is a fundamental question. The question of whether we 23 chromosome pair humans have an ancestor in common with 24 chromosome pair chimps, gorillas, gibbons, and orangutans is a fundamental question.
6 posted on 09/11/2007 7:57:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, August 29, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Ancient Humans Walked But 'Struggled To Run'

Big deal. So do I.

7 posted on 09/11/2007 7:57:27 AM PDT by Steve0113 (Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -A.L.)
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I'd imagine running was always somewhat of a precarious endeavor until the invention of the jock strap...


9 posted on 09/11/2007 7:59:58 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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I presume this article is about Liberal Pathetic Muckdiving Gutless Democrats?
10 posted on 09/11/2007 8:01:44 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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11 posted on 09/11/2007 8:04:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, August 29, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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It ain't that hard................

13 posted on 09/11/2007 8:05:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
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Once again the "Aquatic Ape" theory proves to be the simplest, most consistent with observed facts and the most eloquent explanation for many of the most puzzling questions about human development.
14 posted on 09/11/2007 8:07:48 AM PDT by Maceman ("If your enemy is angry, irritate him." -- Sun Tzu)
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I only subscribe to this theory of evolution.
15 posted on 09/11/2007 8:11:10 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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"Efficient running would have been essential to allow our ancestors to move from a largely herbivorous diet to the much more familiar hunting activities associated with later humans.

I would think that the controlled use of fire would have been the essential key to allow our ancestors to move from a largely herbivorous diet to the much more familiar hunting activities. Long distance running was probably a latter development associated with adapting to life on long narrow outer banks islands with only limbless palm trees to climb and wide channels to swim across.

Take a google map look at the east coast of Africa between South Africa and Ethiopia (where all earliest evidence of modern humans is found). Think of a lifestyle based on daily running to the end of a 20+ mile long beach and herding the flightless birds back to the waiting campers. Add to the mix ocean side diving for lobster & seaweed, bayside wading for shellfish & flounder gigging, climbing limbless palm trees for coconuts (and safety from predators), and then swimming to the next island when the protein supply gets sparse. The long term result is quite an evolutionary leap from bipedal apemen scavenging the savanna.

20 posted on 09/11/2007 9:13:07 AM PDT by shuckmaster
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YEC INTREP - The first man, Adam, was created perfectly. I find it hard to believe he couldn’t run when he wanted to.


23 posted on 09/11/2007 12:29:08 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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no relative of mine was a f’n chimpanzee.
speak for yourselves!

...though there might be just HINT of sheep from some time waaaaayy back there.

naaa...prolly not


26 posted on 09/11/2007 1:00:05 PM PDT by woollyone (whyquit.com ...if you think you can't quit, you're simply not informed yet.)
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32 posted on 12/17/2007 5:06:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, December 10, 2007____________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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