Re: Long distance running in some human populations recent

On Sep 24, 11:42 am, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Op 24-09-2007 16:20, in artikel
1190643603.542022.101...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Lee Olsen
<paleoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> schreef:

On Sep 24, 2:56 am, Marc Verhaegen <m_verhae...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The article below clearly shows that in only a few recent human populations
a few adult men are able to run after kudus at a speed of less than 20
km/hr.

Math 101 =
Marc:
How fast does he run?
30 km/hr?

Goodness no. Only takes 7.5 Km/hr

My litte boy, don't you really believe I didn't know that??

Then why did you suggest 30 km/hr.?


Again:
Listen carefully:
Not difficult:

Nobody doubts that Mr.X can outrun kudus.

OK

Your problem is to prove your nonsense that human ancestors 2 Ma outran
kudus.

Mr. Karoha is not running nearly as fast as Kip Keno or the Boston
Marathon runners. Maybe the Turkana Boy could not run 30 km/hr, but
certainly, even with thick bones, he could out run a tortoise, or a
baby kudu.

http://tinyurl.com/m3nzt

"A run around the park or on a treadmill in the gym is the best most
of us manage these days. We should do better really, given that our
body shape - upright, with large buttocks - apparently evolved for
running.
Anthropologist Dan Lieberman of Harvard University suggested two years
ago that our body shape evolved to allow our ancestors to run long
distances, and reach animal carcasses before other scavengers. After
observing modern hunter-gatherers from the !Xo and /Gwi tribes in
Botswana, Louis Liebenberg, an anthropologist from Cape Town, South
Africa, has suggested that the next evolutionary step was to become
good at endurance running in order to run down prey.
Liebenberg's observations suggest that chasing animals until they
collapse from exhaustion yields more meat per hunt than hunting with
spears or a bow and arrow. Despite that, the limited number of prey
species that can be hunted in this way, and the physically demanding
nature of the chase, mean that the practice is dying out, says
Liebenberg, who will be publishing his findings in Current
Anthropology."

Some early cut-marks are beneath tooth marks, Homo got there first,
and kept the animal long enough to proccess it.

Okidoki?


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