Human evolution

Here. By the way, does anyone in the world realize? The scariest story I ever heard as a child was when some Norwegian Peer Gynt was offered a tail (which meant he would become a troll). In the version I heard, the troll king offered Peer his best Sunday tail but Peer was saved when his aged mother and another woman actually climbed the church belfry and set the bells ringing through all the mountain valleys. So the trolls fled underground. Do they sell that in a can now? No-Troll[TM]? Seriously, the whole idea is just folklore. – O’Leary for News

News for couch potatoes: Wake up: Surprisingly, it turns out that your average fit human can outrun a deer. In fact, a theory claims that we humans evolved the ability to be good endurance runners, so we could chase animals for hours, run them to a standstill, and kill them. The theory continues that their high-density protein and energy helped our brains evolve bigger and bigger. Back in 1978, Michael Baughman wrote an article in Sports Illustrated about how he outran a deer. The deer is more of a sprinter, than a marathon runner. But this has been known for centuries, if not millennia. Most animals bust out their energy sources in a stupid fright. But humans conserve them and Read More ›