Running Extra Mile Sets Humans Apart in Primates' World
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The ability of early human ancestors to run long distances may have influenced the transition to today's body form, researchers report.
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Between trail running and a walk in the woods, thereâs a new aerobic workout.
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A recent census of the world's primate population finds that many of them are in danger of disappearing
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If walking upright first set early human ancestors apart from their ape cousins, it may have been their eventual ability to run long distances with a springing step over the African savanna
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Millions of years before headphone-wearing joggers clotted the streets of America, the development of the ability to run played a crucial role in the evolution of early humans, according to new research.
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A new study of the skeleton of a one-meter-high race of âhobbitsâ that lived 12,000 years ago in Indonesia shows that they were a species of humanâand that the evolutionary path to Homo sapiens has been torturous indeed.
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Humans were born to run and evolved from ape-like creatures into the way they look today probably because of the need to cover long distances and compete for food, scientists said on Wednesday.
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For the first time, great apes have been observed making and using tools to hunt mammals, say researchers who documented chimpanzees hunting other primates in Africa.
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Organized  clubs and casual groups offer runners the chance to socialize, and to  improve.
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US researchers say humans began endurance running about 2 million years ago to help hunt for prey.
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The question of whether prosthetic limbs confer an advantage over able-bodied runners remains shrouded in confusion.
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WASHINGTON - A human ancestor the size of a chimp walked upright six million years ago - about three million years earlier than Lucy, the famous bipedal hominid, researchers say.
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Some brainy animal species, besides humans, campaign across sophisticated and far-flung social networks
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Runners older than 50 improve their performance more quickly than younger runners, a Yale study found, reinforcing past research on older athletes and the benefits they get from exercise.
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The thousands of runners who step up to the starting lines of marathons each year may be following in the footsteps of our earliest human ancestors.
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LONDON - It&#39;s our ability to run, not walk, that sets humans apart as the world&#39;s dominant species, researchers say. According to an anatomical analysis by two US scientists, we&#39;re built to run.
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Is it possible to outrun evolution? Two new lizard-behavior studies look at why it's not always just the fittest that survive.