Being Human | Daniel Lieberman | Born and Evolved to Run 

On early hunting strategies - There is at least one traditional example of an early technique that still survives: the chaccu of the altiplano region of the Andes. Every man, woman, child, and babe in arms participates. They spread out over a wide area and making a lot of noise they gradually drive herds of wild vicuna (the ancestor of the domestic alpaca) into ancient stone corrals. As the herd gets closer to the stone enclosures, the people are closer together, and hold lon ropes with cloth flags on them that prevents the vicuna, a shy animal, from trying to dash between the people to freedom. This is apparently how early humans hunted large game, working together to drive them over cliffs where they crashed to their deaths, or were injured badly enough that they were easy to finish off. Herd animals can be driven together fairly easily, while singling out an animal is very difficult. (Some say ;the masses' are easier to influence as a whole, over influencing people individually.) A few were traditionally harvested for food, surplus males, but the main purpose of the chaccu is to shear the fleeces. Afterward the vicuna are released unharmed. This tradition continues today, though the vicuna were nearly wiped out by Europeans, shooting them to catch them for their extremely valuable fleece, which is the most valuable commercially marketed fiber in the world. European settlers also killed native herbivores 'to make room' for their 'superior' livestock. In addition to removing the animal that some Indian (from ' a people 'en Dios' ') tribes depended on for all or nearly all their food, thus diminishing their numbers and making it easier to subdue the rest so their land could be stolen - the American bison was shot nearly to extinction to 'make room' for domestic cattle. It is likely that the plains could have easily supported both species, just as wildebeast, zebra, and gazelle all graze the same land in Africa. The jkey is the movement of the herds.

he's a very good lecturer. He is very listenable and unpretentious

A very thoughtful presentation. Fun to listen to his approach to research and presentation.

This deserves hundreds of thousands of views!

Learned a lot about how to run safely. better to land on the ball rather than the heel of the foot.

Great lecture. However the audio at the end Q&A section will make you crazy.

Loved it' very interesting!

this was great

It seems far more likely that humans evolved to do a lot of walking, with some running interspersed. A lot of people run marathons; many more run much shorter distances though they are often called 'marathons'. Havn't listened to the whole thing yet, so I am not sure if he mentions 'runner's high' experienced by those who push themselves to continue after 'hitting the wall'. The wall is apparently when people run out of carbs to fuel the run. The 'high' seems to be when the body is producing and running on ketones instead.

It should be noted that early human reproductive intervals were certainly loner than seen in 'domesticated' humans Without the fattening effect of grains, and without the hormone-mimicing substances found in many plants later grown by farming cultures, it is likely that lactation suppressed ovulation, as is (was?) observed in people still eating their traditional diets. As 'civilization' advances, grain-fed women produced more offspring, which rulers wanted for labor and/or for armies. 'Paleopathology and the Origins of the Paleo Diet', a talk by Dr. Michael Eades, examines the4 research on how diet affected the development and health of early humans who ate plant-based vs animal-based diets. The effects of grain on the ancient Egyptians is startling, as revealed by examination of the mummies using current technology. Available on RU-vid.

XC skiing is a simple biomechanical movement set that delivers strength, endurance plus balance. Running offers no balance development. SpikeBoarding is a very casual and fun way to XC ski.

Throwing. We are expert throwers, in regards to evolution and hunting. We throw stones. Spears were just stones with an extension on it, much like the ax was just a stone with an extension. Our vision became extended as well and hunting became a prediction. Then we started running for the chase.

When i chase buffalo or cattle out of my farm i can't beat them in endurance and not even my dog . I always exhaust before these animals .

"The average American eats breakfast from a box which, when you think about it, is a really strange thing." Yeah. Particularly when you consider that ancestral humans probably didn't eat breakfast at all. Modern humans do really strange things. Money and marketing makes us do it.

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Any social carnivore humans in chat LULW?

What if I dug a hole and ran them into it, or put some vines together and got a few tangled into it. There would be no evidence of this technique. Just a couple alternatives.

Why couldn't an animal sprint a good distance away, pant & rest, then when the human gets close, sprint again and then rest again?

heelstrike is bad. Forefoot strike is best.

I liked it without even watching it, I better dislike and hear what he's got to say. 5 hours of TV haha

no way, I am not long distance runner

Look I hate to say this and no offence I am a learning disability sufferer I have dyslexia and attention deficit disorder so I to sometimes would prefer people to speak through certain subjects slightly more slowly however you don’t stop someone two seconds into speaking and moan about the speed at which they speak you press record on your phone and then play it back at a slower speed later what is wrong with some ladies these days thinking that they can get away with this? How unbelievably self-absorbed can someone be can you believe I had the same sort of thing at a cashpoint the other day the lady who saw me struggling on crutches to stand and wait my turn in the queue who was sat in her car and decided to jump out of a car and shove away into the queue in front of me claiming she had been queueing but because it might rain she was sat in the car waiting and I should’ve acknowledged her ??? Yes of course being a gentleman I was at fault for not having realised that she was sitting in her BMW whilst also queueing anonymously and without queueing😮 j- Zeus !!!

A horse gets tired after running two miles 🤣 at a slower pace it can go for 20 miles not even one marathon 🤣

Sorry to say, but persistence hunting on early hominins is a myth, I also embraced this theory, BUT. Humans, are the best runners in the animal kingdom, some Africans tribes practice persistence hunting Nevertheless, humans ARE born to run (in other way, not on persistent hunting)

why human beings are born? If someone has created us, why he created us? Please Daneil answer me......

The endurance running/hunting theory is not only stupid, it has been debunked by archeological evidence.

Throwing. We are expert throwers, in regards to evolution and hunting. We throw stones. Spears were just stones with an extension on it, much like the ax was just a stone with an extension. Our vision became extended as well and hunting became a prediction. Then we started running for the chase.