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.)
David Spurrett
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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Anthropology has long considered the evolution of our uniquely human endurance capacities to be the result of selection upon anatomical and physiological features imposed by the demands of thermoregu...