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NPR All Things Considered
11-17-2004
Analysis: Latest idea in human evolution that humans were designed to run long distances

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We run, therefore, we are. This is the latest idea in the story of human evolution and what pushed us from tree-dwellers to upright walkers to, finally, couch-dwellers. Two scientists say humans were designed to run; not sprint, but run long distance. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on this provocative proposal.

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