• hark@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The human body isn’t perfect, but it’s not helped by doing long stretches of a single activity.

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      3 months ago

      So it’s more “stupid agriculture, pulling us away from the nomadic hunter-gatherer life we’re built for”?

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        3 months ago

        Chasing an animal to exhaustion involves a lot of running, which really fucks up your knees. Especially with uneven surfaces and primitive shoes.

        I think the human body really is just a product of “good enough”.