i have heard about the tarahumara indians before... showing up to run marathons in arizona and southern california in nothing but wooden soled sandals and taking first place. really cool.
also neat is the fact that my old graduate advisor at the University of Utah is cited in the article! he published the paper the NY Times mentions about the distance-running capabilities of humans while I was working for him (got a front cover in Nature). I think that the Times does a pretty good job of summarizing his and Lieberman's thesis, personally.
i remember at the lab during that time was a large old volume of eadweard muybridge time-lapse photographs (example above). some of the most captivating work i have ever seen
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