Link: Biomechanical demands of hip width
Boston University’s research office has a nice article about Kristi Lewton’s research on pelvic biomechanics: “In defense of wide hips”. The piece refers to ...
All posts tagged with energetics
The complexity of obesity
A moderately long read by David Berreby in Aeon magazine looks at a gaggle of theories about the causes and consequences of the worldwide epidemic of obesity...
Mailbag: Thrifty brains
Re: The thrifty brainotype.
Running commentary
Tara Parker-Pope picks up the “endurance running” hypothesis:
Energetics of elite bicycling
We're pretty much obsessed with the Tour de France here. Today, Gina Kolata writes about the energetic cost of endurance:
"There is magic in misery"
Thus says the "Ultramarathon Man," Dean Karnazes, as profiled by Wired (via Instapundit). I think it's fascinating:
Running young
On the subject of insane feats of endurance, please allow me to draw your attention to this story about extreme children endurance runners:
Allostasis in human evolution
McEwen and Wingfield (2003) discuss the concept of allostasis. I was unfamiliar with this concept myself until an interesting presentation by one of our gr...
How have metabolic constraints affected human evolution?
In the 2002 Annual Reviews in Anthropology, Leslie Aiello and Jonathan Wells provide a synopsis of the ways that morphological evolution in the human lineag...