Originally Posted by
uluchay
I would like to check that article, if you could provide a link that'll be great.
For what I've known, human beings suck pretty much at every athletic aspect. That is why we have a developed front brain and learned how to search for shelter, make tools and weapons to turn our physical disadvantage to our favour. Dolphins for example are considered to be almost as smart as humans but their athletic ability provides them enough agility to hunt for themselves and out-swim any threat. Our intelligence and dominance is also well respected in nature as no wild animal (except polar bears) hunts humans.
I'm not saying what you are saying is wrong but I see no evolutionary advantage in being able to outrun a horse in a 100 miles race.
You don't see the evolutionary advantage in chasing a bigger, faster animal into exhaustion so that it drops to the ground where we kill it with the spear or club we are able to carry (bipedalism plus opposable thumbs)?