Re: The Great Filter

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Mon, 30 Sep 1996 20:42:19 -0700


John K Clark wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 Hara Ra <harara@shamanics.com> Wrote:
>
>
> >Bipedalism may be slow, but it made us the most efficient
> >runners on the planet. Humans can outrun and outlast any
> >other running animal.
>
>
> Humans do have very good endurance, but that's not because of bipedalism,
> it's because we are better at getting rid of unwanted heat than any other
> land animal of our size, and that's because we have sweat glands on every
> part of our skin, and that's because we don't need a permanent coat of hair,
> and that's because we're smart enough to make an artificial coat and put it
> on and take it off as needed.
>

I agree.
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