From an article in La Stampa are aware of the book "Manthropology" written by the anthropologist Peter McAllister. The news is also mentioned here Routers. The thesis of the book, which I have not had the opportunity to read directly, as is stated boasts a divided and suggestive: "The physical capabilities of modern athletes modernu is small change when compared to that primitive men were able to do ".
The book cites the discovery of some footprints in the mud by some Australian Aborigines about 20,000 years ago, to demonstrate how they were able to run almost as fast as the world record holder Usain Bolt. The book is
and brings further evidence to support the hypothesis dell'inedeguatezza of modern physics.
Per esempio, che i giovani Tutsi erano in grado di saltare altezze superiori all'attuale record mondiale di salto in alto. Testimonianze fotografiche del secolo ventesimo, sono li adimostrarlo.
Per i Tutsi, ogni giovane doveva essere in grado di saltare almeno la propria altezza. Per questo si esercitavano continuamente. E a posteriore direi che i risultati si vedevano.
Fin qua niente di nuovo, è pensiero comune, il fatto di ritenere che le moderne tecniche di allenamento siano in grado di permettere l'espressione dei migliori record umani.
Abbiamo quindi semplicemente un libro controcorrente. Il libro per essere provocatorio la butta anche sul sessista, parla quindi di decadenza del maschio moderno
In realtà questa idea, della decadenza of the human race, is not exactly a new idea.
has vanished in the Aeneid, for example (Aeneid, Book XII, trans. Annibale Caro)
.... we saw a stone, a stone oldest and largest
ch'ivi lots to limit was way to share fields and tor lite 'neighbors. Era o
immeasurably to this weight, that twelve of those
ch'oggi produces the
our age, and of 'the strongest yet, not
avrebbon the ground up, otherwise ....
Enea here raises a contemporary rock that even twelve men (from Roman times) would be able to lift. And 'the clear point of view of the poet.
In a world view neoplatonica, puo' sembrare naturale pensare che lo spirito, l'energia, del creatore "imperfetto" possa andare ad esaurirsi col passare del tempo.
Immagino che i più, specialmente coloro i quali hanno fiducia nelle sorti magnifiche e progressive del genere umano, potrebbero scandalizzarsi alle tesi dell'antropologo Australiano.
Anche quelli che non comprendono il pensiero di Darwin, mescolando cose tra loro appartenenti a categorie arbitrarie quali progresso ed evoluzione, potrebbero ugualmente non comprendere.
Se così fosse, direi che queste persone sottovalutano la capacità proteica e di adattabilità esprimibili dai nostri geni.
Mi spiego meglio, si dice che e il50% delle capacità di un atleta siano legate techniques of training, while the other 50% of its genetics.
difficilmento The idea is that a training technique can compete with the gene pool of a human group subjected to a constant evolutionary pressure.
you a Tutsi, and you can not jump at least your height? You can not have kids. If alterai so high but you have many children. Are you an Aboriginal
and you can not run the 100 meters in 10 seconds? Riuscirari not take any deer and you're going to starve. But if you acchiapparei gazelles proabilmente many children. And quite a few of these offspring 'will also be fast runners, some are, through the junctions, probably more' fast of you.
clearly not the mechanism? With appropriate selection pressure any evolutionary advantage becomes extreme after a few generations, to select the people who have a few superhuman traits.
It 'clear that the use of eugenics, is not a viable alternative for modern society. At least for most.
addition to this, modern man stands in a vast range of sports, from swimming, running, marathon, the free exercises with weights. And inceremento record is an incontrovertible fact, a few hundred years now. Well before the industrial age.
So the work of our Australian anthropologist is only there to show that comparing apples and pears you can prove any thesis.
In any event, even if not made up of super-men, the tribal people have always had something to teach us. Think, for example, the technique of focus used by the fishermen of pearl diving. This is not a genetic adaptation, but a cultural trait. Westerners too, if properly trained, can learn to put objects into focus under water without any need of glasses and lenses.
On the other hand it is obvious that modern man can take revenge on their predecessors, from the explanation will genetically, only when the techniques of genetic engineering in a bloodless manner will allow you to choose the best gene pools in some sports. But the spirit in which running every
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