* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    The Media and Entertainment Deal Machine Is Revving Up – WSJ

    The Media and Entertainment Deal Machine Is Gearing Up for Action

    Op-Ed: Data Storage and Protection in Today’s Media & Entertainment Industry – Sports Video Group

    How Data Storage and Protection Are Transforming the Media & Entertainment Industry

    The Analyst Verdict: PENN Entertainment In The Eyes Of 7 Experts – Nasdaq

    7 Experts Reveal the Ultimate Verdict on PENN Entertainment

    3 Arts Entertainment Expands Into News With Acquisition of OManagement (Exclusive) – The Hollywood Reporter

    3 Arts Entertainment Expands Into News With Acquisition of OManagement (Exclusive) – The Hollywood Reporter

    Leading Proxy Advisory Firm Glass Lewis Recommends Shareholders Vote “FOR” Both of PENN Entertainment’s Director Nominees on the WHITE Proxy Card – Business Wire

    Glass Lewis Urges Shareholders to Support All PENN Entertainment Director Nominees on the WHITE Proxy Card

    Cisco Partners with Monumental Sports & Entertainment to Power New D.C. Arena – Cisco Newsroom

    Cisco Teams Up with Monumental Sports & Entertainment to Revolutionize the New D.C. Arena Experience

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    UTC To Host Quantum Technology Workshop June 23-25 – Chattanoogan.com: Breaking News

    Join the Quantum Technology Workshop This June 23-25!

    Rimac Technology Powers the Bugatti Tourbillon with Cutting-Edge Battery and Powertrain Tech – Rimac Newsroom

    Rimac Technology Drives the Bugatti Tourbillon with Revolutionary Battery and Powertrain Innovation

    “Co-creation” boosts commercial technology for dual-use defense applications – Breaking Defense

    “Co-creation” boosts commercial technology for dual-use defense applications – Breaking Defense

    MSI Viking and Mahr Host Technology Day – WSPA 7NEWS

    Step Inside the Thrilling World of MSI Viking and Mahr Technology Day!

    6.12pm is the new 8pm – Go Technology – cgastrategy.com

    6.12pm is the new 8pm – Go Technology – cgastrategy.com

    Russian Scientists Develop Sub-Ångström Technology for Next-Gen Quantum Processors – The Quantum Insider

    Russian Scientists Pioneer Sub-Ångström Technology to Revolutionize Next-Gen Quantum Processors

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    The Media and Entertainment Deal Machine Is Revving Up – WSJ

    The Media and Entertainment Deal Machine Is Gearing Up for Action

    Op-Ed: Data Storage and Protection in Today’s Media & Entertainment Industry – Sports Video Group

    How Data Storage and Protection Are Transforming the Media & Entertainment Industry

    The Analyst Verdict: PENN Entertainment In The Eyes Of 7 Experts – Nasdaq

    7 Experts Reveal the Ultimate Verdict on PENN Entertainment

    3 Arts Entertainment Expands Into News With Acquisition of OManagement (Exclusive) – The Hollywood Reporter

    3 Arts Entertainment Expands Into News With Acquisition of OManagement (Exclusive) – The Hollywood Reporter

    Leading Proxy Advisory Firm Glass Lewis Recommends Shareholders Vote “FOR” Both of PENN Entertainment’s Director Nominees on the WHITE Proxy Card – Business Wire

    Glass Lewis Urges Shareholders to Support All PENN Entertainment Director Nominees on the WHITE Proxy Card

    Cisco Partners with Monumental Sports & Entertainment to Power New D.C. Arena – Cisco Newsroom

    Cisco Teams Up with Monumental Sports & Entertainment to Revolutionize the New D.C. Arena Experience

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    UTC To Host Quantum Technology Workshop June 23-25 – Chattanoogan.com: Breaking News

    Join the Quantum Technology Workshop This June 23-25!

    Rimac Technology Powers the Bugatti Tourbillon with Cutting-Edge Battery and Powertrain Tech – Rimac Newsroom

    Rimac Technology Drives the Bugatti Tourbillon with Revolutionary Battery and Powertrain Innovation

    “Co-creation” boosts commercial technology for dual-use defense applications – Breaking Defense

    “Co-creation” boosts commercial technology for dual-use defense applications – Breaking Defense

    MSI Viking and Mahr Host Technology Day – WSPA 7NEWS

    Step Inside the Thrilling World of MSI Viking and Mahr Technology Day!

    6.12pm is the new 8pm – Go Technology – cgastrategy.com

    6.12pm is the new 8pm – Go Technology – cgastrategy.com

    Russian Scientists Develop Sub-Ångström Technology for Next-Gen Quantum Processors – The Quantum Insider

    Russian Scientists Pioneer Sub-Ångström Technology to Revolutionize Next-Gen Quantum Processors

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home Science

How sweat and stamina helped make humans exceptional runners–and hunters

May 14, 2024
in Science
How sweat and stamina helped make humans exceptional runners–and hunters
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Endurance running is not just a hobby for modern marathoners or for posting on social media. A new look into the anthropological history of endurance running when hunting for game shows that it may be just as efficient as other more traditional hunting methods like foraging. The findings are described in a study published May 13 in the journal Nature Human Behaviour and supports an idea called the endurance pursuit hypothesis.

“People who frequently practice running will know that when practiced on a regular basis, running becomes relatively easy,” study co-authors and evolutionary anthropologists Eugène Morin of Trent University in Canada and Bruce Winterhalder from the University of California, Davis tell PopSci. “From this, it is easy to envision how it could have conferred a selective advantage in hunting.”

What is the endurance pursuit hypothesis?

Initially, some anthropologists believed that running long distances in pursuit of game would have been taxing to the human body and not worth the trouble. A more slow paced pursuit was believed to be the better method to both get food while preserving strength. 

Endurance pursuit hypothesis posits that the human ability to run long distances is an adaptation that began roughly two million years ago. 

[Related: Humans are natural runners—and this ancient gene mutation might have helped.]

“Unlike other mammals, including other primates such as chimpanzees, humans can sweat profusely and have lower limb muscles evolved for stamina rather than power,” Morin and  Winterhalder say. “If economical and successful, endurance pursuits of medium-to-large game in a tropical environment could have [been] selected for that unique combination of traits: sweating and stamina.”

However, there have been few reports of contemporary humans using these endurance pursuits. Running long distances is generally viewed as energetically costly, and thus not worth it.

A game-hunting advantage

In their new study, Morin and Winterhalder studied roughly 400 recorded instances dating from the early 1500s to the early 2000s to investigate the role of endurance running while hunting. These included some first-hand accounts of different nomadic groups including the Evenki people in Siberia, the Innu in Canada, the Mbuti in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Pitjantjatjara in Australia, the Inuit in Alaska, and more. Some of these ethnographic sources revealed that hunters sometimes ran over 62 miles in one pursuit. 

In addition to reviewing these accounts, the team used mathematical modeling to look at the various scenarios that could play out over a pursuit. They varied the size of the prey, how quickly or slowly a human pursued the animals (walking or running), and the distance covered.

The models found that in the right context, faster-paced endurance pursuit can increase energy returns. The models revealed that the calorific gains of endurance running were comparable to other hunting methods.

[Related: Why are humans good at endurance running? The answer is murky.]

“We were able to show that running or a mix of running and walking can be efficient, and it was a global practice by foragers prior to the modern era,” Morin and Winterhalder say. “In short, endurance pursuits would have provided hominins with an evolutionary advantage while competing with carnivores for game.”

The study suggests this type of hunting strategy would have been available to Pleistocene hominins (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) and may also have had a role in human evolution. However, Morin and Winterhalder stress that this work does not speak directly to human’s evolutionary past, since it relies on ethnographic accounts from recent history.

Cultural bias

The team was surprised by the number of cases of long endurance pursuits that they found in environments that ranged from the bitter cold Canadian tundra to the more humid mountains of Hawaii. They also found that the study highlights a cultural bias in anthropology. 

“Committed recreational joggers and runners aside, Westerners tend to see running as ‘arduous,’ ‘costly,’ ‘challenging,’ and so on,” Morin and Winterhalder say. “In contrast, our observational data highlights Native societies that have encouraged and valued running, often for men, women and children, and in races and festive celebrations, as well as hunting.”

Morin and Winterhalder are currently working on another paper on endurance pursuits with more detail that assesses what may have motivated hunters and what seasons saw more endurance hunting. They are also working with collaborators Rebecca Bliege Bird and Doug Bird from Penn State on a study that will examine the division of labor in hunting.

Laura Baisas

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : Popular Science – https://www.popsci.com/science/endurance-running-evolution/

Tags: sciencestaminaSweat
Previous Post

Get storage bins and totes for ridiculously cheap prices during Amazon’s spring cleaning sale

Next Post

Chicken fat supercapacitors could store green energy of the future

Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut a Major Ecology Program – The New York Times

Trump’s Proposed Budget Threatens Major Ecology Program with Significant Cuts

June 14, 2025
The science of sweating: Staying cool in Southern Colorado – FOX21 News Colorado

The science of sweating: Staying cool in Southern Colorado – FOX21 News Colorado

June 14, 2025
Scientists discover strong, unexpected link between Earth’s magnetic field and oxygen levels – Live Science

Scientists Uncover Surprising Connection Between Earth’s Magnetic Field and Oxygen Levels

June 14, 2025
Doctors say this lifestyle choice is the biggest contributor to cognitive decline and dementia – Earth.com

Doctors Uncover the Lifestyle Habit Most Connected to Cognitive Decline and Dementia

June 14, 2025
The economic risks of Israel’s Iran attack – Axios

The High-Stakes Economic Fallout of an Israeli Strike on Iran

June 14, 2025
The Media and Entertainment Deal Machine Is Revving Up – WSJ

The Media and Entertainment Deal Machine Is Gearing Up for Action

June 14, 2025
Kenvue mulls sale of some skin health and beauty brands, sources say – Reuters

Kenvue Explores Selling Select Skin Health and Beauty Brands to Refocus Growth

June 14, 2025
Trump’s aggressive moves on immigration protests put Democrats in a political bind – CNN

Trump’s Bold Immigration Crackdown Puts Democrats in a Tough Spot

June 14, 2025
UTC To Host Quantum Technology Workshop June 23-25 – Chattanoogan.com: Breaking News

Join the Quantum Technology Workshop This June 23-25!

June 13, 2025
How madagascar’s lizards became the island’s last hope for reforestation – ScienceDaily

How Madagascar’s Lizards Became the Island’s Unexpected Heroes of Reforestation

June 13, 2025

Categories

Archives

June 2025
MTWTFSS
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30 
« May    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (685)
  • Economy (700)
  • Entertainment (21,602)
  • General (15,373)
  • Health (9,741)
  • Lifestyle (704)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (701)
  • Politics (706)
  • Science (15,917)
  • Sports (21,200)
  • Technology (15,686)
  • World (682)

Recent News

Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut a Major Ecology Program – The New York Times

Trump’s Proposed Budget Threatens Major Ecology Program with Significant Cuts

June 14, 2025
The science of sweating: Staying cool in Southern Colorado – FOX21 News Colorado

The science of sweating: Staying cool in Southern Colorado – FOX21 News Colorado

June 14, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version