Running turned humans into what they are today, U. of U. biologist ...
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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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SALT LAKE CITY Nov 18, 2004 - New research suggests that developing the ability to run long thought to be a byproduct of walking for early man was actually an instrumental step in the evolution of people from ape-like creatures into what we know today
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It may be hard to believe in these days of driving the SUV to the corner store, but people are actually pretty fast on their feet, and endurance running may have played an important role in human evolution.
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Genetic evidence suggests humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasing different.
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Active people have cells that look younger on a molecular level than those of couch potatoes.
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A United Kingdom University is conducting a study to know why Kenyans and Ethiopians are made of superior stuff when it comes to distance running.
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Altering a single gene can turn ordinary mice into marathon racers that can run for hours and eat huge amounts of food without getting fat, researchers say.
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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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Since the first boom of the early 1970s, there has been no dearth of running books, from the how-tos of Jim Fixx to the whys of the good doctor, George Sheehan. But noteworthy additions to the genre -- even as technically imperfect as John L. Parker Jr.'s 1978 cult classic "Once a Runner" -- have...
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By DIANE SCARPONI     NEW HAVEN, Conn.  -- Runners over age 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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NEW YORK A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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Older marathoners are running a few steps ahead of their younger counterparts, says a Yale University study. It found that marathon runners aged 50 and older are posting
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Researchers on Monday unveiled genetically engineered mice that can run farther and longer than their naturally bred brethren, bringing the "genetic doping" of elite athletes a small step closer to reality.
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The sophistication of the human brain is not simply the result of steady evolution, according to new research. Instead, humans are truly privileged animals with brains that have developed in a type of extraordinarily
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The evolution of a physique for long-distance running is what made humans look the way we do now. The crucial role of running in human evolution, overlooked in previous research, is being proposed in an article
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A molecular switch known to regulate fat metabolism appears to prevent obesity and turns laboratory mice into marathon runners, a Salk Institute study has found.
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Add this to the reasons to take up jogging: It might be what separates us from the apes. Scientists at Harvard and the University of Utah say that much of our anatomy was shaped 2 million