Some anthropologist dude has published a book documenting his findings of the athletic prowess of earlier mankind.
It's an interesting article to read, but I do find a little fault where he compares modern mankind's abilities to run and jump with those of neanderthals, who are a different species from us in the fisrt place.
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Some have argued that the physique and athletic prowess of the average modern person would be very, very impressive if we just ate and exercised like our paleolithic ancestors (infrequent meals, mostly veg, low-sugar fruit, and lean meat, NO grains whatsoever, and periodic, high-intensity exercise). While we'd almost certainly be healthier, I'm pretty sure that sexual selection has done its magic over the last few thousand years and shifted female preferences towards other forms of male dominance: social intelligence, creativity, and other means of acquiring wealth and status than simple brute force.
I heard about that study and the first thing that popped into my mind was the scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" when the sword-wielding fellow emerges out of the crowd in the bazaar to confront Indiana Jones, at which point Indy pulls out his sidearm and blows the dude away.
brian: how those subsaharn bush peoples?
they seem to be pretty paleolithic in their lifestyles.
wonder how they would do on the football field...
My understanding is that some of the rationale of the paleolithic approach is based on isolated tribes who largely live that way. But I can't cite any specific examples off the top of my head.
It should be said that paleolithic humans also rarely made it to 30...
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