Look how fit high school students were in 1962. It's probably not a coincidence that the deterioration of our bodies was accompanied by a political movement based on feelings of fragility and helplessness.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGa6BPj3Mcw&t=2s …
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Some people think this video is suspicious. But there's other evidence that the average man used to be more like these kids than like what we think of as normal. Here's a passage from Eibl-Eibesfeldt's Human Ethology (1989) about what "any untrained physically fit adult" can do:pic.twitter.com/HvRw5ti4ew
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This capacity for universality explains why humans need to exercise to stay fit. Other animals have fixed roles, human bodies pare away unneeded capacity unless directly informed of the need.
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