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Darwin-L Message Log 5:168 (January 1994)
Academic Discussion on the History and Theory of the Historical Sciences
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<5:168>From bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu Thu Jan 27 03:35:34 1994 From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer) Subject: Re: tools To: darwin-l@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 4:43:43 EST I cannot agree with asia lerner that we are physically inferior to apes! We most certainly can run as fast, and jump as high, as, say, gorillas & chimps... physically fit humans are pretty awesome in their capabilities. Just because so many of us academics aren't among the phsycially fit, is no reason to generalize to the species :-) Brachiating, now, -that- might be a contest the apes would win. Which brings one to a second point: fitness is relative to the lifestyle of the species in question. We're not as hairy as our ancestral forms, either: does that make us less fit? Have we really lost survival and/or reproductive fitness because of our nakedness? --bayla singer bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
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