This is magnificently cool and valuable work by Cara Ocobock. Why we should seriously consider that pregnancy physiology provides the original human endurance adaptations. (Then, later, bipedalism plus endurance physiology allowed endurance running.)
Interesting discussion of whether attention spans are decreasing. I have trouble with one argument, though: that lab tasks are necessarily a good measure of real-world attention. They are surely less messy, but they may not actually reflect real life www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My concern is what should be a stopgap solution for problems that need a long term whole society approach ends up being the only serious attention paid to the issue. A band-aid on a festering sore.
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Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.
I'm not actually that opposed to having greater controls on social media for kids (within reason) but *all* the arguments for proper regulation apply to other age groups as well - arguably more so in relation to national security, public health, etc.
New Publication!
The 9+ month marathon: How pregnancy may have shaped human endurance capacities
This was tough to write & a bit terrifying, if I am honest. Fortunately, it is fully open access, so all can read and critique. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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