What's the Secret of Human Running?

Our vulnerability is really located in the Achilles tendon. Even if standing upright, if they lacked an Achilles tendon like in chimps and gorillas, early humans would have been slower than a snail race. "Reverse-engineered" computer models point that in this case, our ancestors would have ha... [ read more >> ]

A sequence of steps that may have been taken by our famous hominid relative, "Lucy," known formally as Australopithecus afarensis. Without an Achilles tendon, our ancestors would have been decent walkers but slow and inefficient runners

Image comment: A sequence of steps that may have been taken by our famous hominid relative, "Lucy," known formally as Australopithecus afarensis. Without an Achilles tendon, our ancestors would have been decent walkers but slow and inefficient runners
Image credits: Bill Sellers/University of Manchester

A sequence of steps that may have been taken by our famous hominid relative, "Lucy," known formally as Australopithecus afarensis. Without an Achilles tendon, our ancestors would have been decent walkers but slow and inefficient runners
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