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Here is a story to make you feel better when you are slogging away on the treadmill
Human's are one of the best adapted creature on the planet for long distance running and this may have gave our ancestors a huge evolutionary advantage in survival terms. Whilst we're not the strongest, most agile or the fastest, the fact we are designed to go the distance against our animal competitors changed us from being the hunted to being the hunters.
Modern humans and their immediate ancestors such as Homo erectus sport several adaptations that make humans, instead of some ferocious, furry, or fleet creature, the animal world’s best distance runners.“Humans are terrible athletes in terms of power and speed, but we’re phenomenal at slow and steady. We’re the tortoises of the animal kingdom,� Lieberman said.
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