Usain Bolt was faster than the hundreds of billions of people that came before him. He set a world record that still hasn’t been broken.
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zephorah@lemm.ee 6 days agoThe science on how humans survived through some seriously apex predators tags this as the reason. We evolved to run, the Usain Bolts of the world not being rare back in the day, which is why we are even here, and now we’ve de-volved into a sedentary society where Usain Bolt is the only one.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 6 days ago
Mesophar@lemm.ee 6 days ago
It was never about our speed, it was about our endurance and persistence. There’s no point in history where we were the fastest creature in the local food chain, a deer or Buffalo was going to sprint faster than us, but when they had to stop to cool off or recover from the fast burn of energy, we were right there, right behind them, still coming.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
It’s true we’re more like the T1000 from T2 than usain bolt. Iirc our endurance on land is unsurpassed by any other mammal
zephorah@lemm.ee 5 days ago
It was just one theory, backing his advise. We didn’t have the sharpest teeth or claws, but we could run away. And far better than our lazy asses generally can today.