Walking on two legs means humans are slower than most other animals. We run half the speed of a leopard.  But our endurance for walking can’t be beat.  Why putting righty-after-lefty is a marvelous feat of evolution. 

Click above to hear part 3 of Feet Don’t Fail Me, featuring Jeremy “Jerry” DeSilva, Professor in the departments of anthropology and biological sciences, Dartmouth College, and author of “First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human.”

Feet Don’t Fail Me:
Part 1: Daniel Lieberman / Walking Barefoot
Part 2: Madhusudhan Venkadesan / Walking Strong
Part 3: Jeremy DeSilva / Walking Tall
Part 4: David Bustos & Sally Reynolds / Footprints in the Sands of Time

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