Wiseman Ashleigh L
Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Curr Biol. 2025 Jan 6;35(1):R9-R11. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.044.
Endurance running is thought as critical for the evolutionary success of hominins. A new study analysing the running skills of the famous 'Lucy' - Australopithecus afarensis - finds that they performed poorer than modern humans, suggesting that key features of the human body plan evolved specifically to improve running performance.
