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Then the Coodoo Runs Away
In the animal kingdom, exactly an wehave bee able to run. We capitalized on that to evolve, because it meant that we could hunt. And so our hunting method was endurance running. So there's a great verion tube, and they've been books that burnt. Heinrich wrote a books called thermal warriors. Think of these sand bushmen. They just keep going and going for hours and hours and hours. I don't know what the pace is, it's probably ten minute miles. It's not going to shoot the lights out, but it's enough. The ability to run as endurance athletes actually enabled us to develop. That's the theory that lieberman puts forward.
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