Re: Duplicate genes help humans run long distances

"Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Genetic evidence showing running is in our genetic heritage.

What an astoundingly bad piece of 'science'
-- and that's without beginning to consider
the detail (which would undoubtedly turn out
to be the crap).

Of course, it's no surprise that idiots like
Travsky and Olsen are taken in by it.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12381-duplicate-genes-help-humans-go-the-extra-mile.html
July 2007

Human beings can run long distances because we carry multiple copies of a gene
that helps supply our cells with energy, a new study suggests. That supports
the idea that endurance running gave our human ancestors an evolutionary edge.

<garbage snipped>

So animals that live in trees are not
designed for making long trips, involving
effort over an extended period of time.

AMAZING !

The evidence is clear, we are built for running.

A lie. Surprisingly (at least to PA types)
we are built for life on the ground.
Accordingly we have the opportunity
to move about on it a lot, and -- since
we left the trees -- a capacity to travel
distances has evolved.

Yawn.


Paul.



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