Running Extra Mile Sets Humans Apart in Primates&#39; World
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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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Researchers have found evidence of a population of chimps that shares plant foods.
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BENITA JOHNSON is not one of those cautious people who baulks at trying new things. Rather, the rake-thin distance runner adds a different challenge to her agenda every year.
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Kenyan distance runners, so dominant around the world, are viewed by fans as among the most modest and gracious of athletic heroes. In events ranging from the Olympics to the Boston Marathon to even local road races, Kenyans are more likely than not to win, typically employing signature...
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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 traditional clash between Ethiopia and Kenya in distance running is also a contest between competing visions of sport
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Researchers have unveiled genetically engineered mice that can run farther and longer than their naturally bred brethren, bringing the âgenetic dopingâ of elite athletes a small step closer to reality.
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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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The evolution of a physique for long-distance running is what made humans look the way we do now -- whether winning a marathon, nursing a strained Achilles&#39; tendon
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Some brainy animal species, besides humans, campaign across sophisticated and far-flung social networks.
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NEW YORK Once upon a time, but not so long ago, in a tropical island midway between Asia and Australia, there lived a race of little people, whose adults stood just more than one meter tall.
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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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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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Humans went into evolutionary overdrive as their brains developed, sending them on a path that set them apart from other animals, scientists believe.
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It&#39;s been a few decades since anyone recorded my mile splits as I bounded over hill and dale, immersed in running&#39;s intoxicating rhythm.
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Organized  clubs and casual groups offer runners the chance to socialize, and to  improve.
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Long-distance running may have been a driving force behind evolution of the modern human body, scientists say.