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How Far Can the Human Body Go?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Evolution of Endurance Runners

In terms of endurance, where the humans rank in that league table? Actually, much better than you think they would. And if you cancel explain that, that means that the brief history of time was wrong. We've talked about speed and distance. And you study humans but also animals. So the animals, you could name the cheetah, for example, are run faster than human being. But compared to cheetahs antelope galloping species, we're not that great. All you've got to do is run a cheater by about 100 metres,. First 100 metres, then you're good. Sally's got a chance.

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