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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (30 children)

So this is pretty neat:

https://www.science.org/content/article/born-run-early-endurance-running--may-have-evolved-help-humans-chase-down-prey

Humans aren't good at running fast, but we are good at running for a long time for long distances, so it's thought that we would just run after things until they got tired.

So like you know how people in horror movies would run and then look over their shoulder and Jason is somehow still there?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Back in my reddit days I wrote a long comment about the fact that zombies are scary because they are the ultimate persistence hunters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I remember reading that

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