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don’t we have gills? If we are
made to fight, why don’t we
have a natural armor or limbs
better prepared to hit? If we
were made to run, why are we day, which energetically
not as fast as other bipeds? Or means that we burned
why do we experience so as they’ve probably never enough calories to cover this
many injuries when we run? walked the kilometers our practically daily activity. That
The explanation must have ancestors normally did. If the leads us almost directly to the
come from pure logic, and possibility of getting injured fact that the obesity rate was
according to logic, what we while walking is minimal, it practically zero in prehistoric
have done 99% of the time of means that it is clearly the times. This was also due to
human evolution was best possible activity we are several issues that not only
fundamentally walking. designed for. have to do with mobility -
obviously, the scarcity of food
And that explains a lot of But that’s not the point.
things. during certain periods of time
It turns out that there is was a fact (which only
The possibility of injury with even a dependence on several disappeared with the
a gait caused by constant issues in our daily lives that Neolithic, the abondoning of
movement is certainly improve when we walk. We no nomadism and the first
minimal, with the exception longer only talk about the fact harvests), and as we all know
made for those people who that our metabolism obviously by now, if you eat little, you
have congenital problems or increases when we walk, or can gain little fat. But also, the
who simply do not coordinate when say that we have walked fact that the average lifespan
correctly simply because they as a consequence of our of a human is estimated to
have never walked enough, nomadism. We are talking have been 25-27 years, which
including overweight people, about walking kilometers per means that the natural
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