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Born to Run Farther with Dr. Irene Davis and Chris McDougall

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The Mismatch Theory of Evolution

We started running about 2 million years ago. The first shoes that were found, we're about 10,000 years old. But for the majority of our evolutionary history, we have run barefoot or in minimal shoes. We need brilliant academics to come up with something called the mismatch theory.

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