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From: michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael maxwell)
Newsgroups: net.bio,net.origins
Subject: Re: Bipedalism
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Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 14:00:55 EDT
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In article <397@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> palmer@cit-vax.UUCP (David Palmer) writes:
>A hunting human can eventually catch up with just about any animal,
>(assuming that it doesn't hide or burrow) just by walking at a pace
>that the prey cannot use efficiently.  Of course, this doesn't help
>if you are being chased by a cheetah, but if you are chasing an impala,
>you can eventually tire it out and catch up with it

I'd heard this before (in Analog, a science fiction/ science fact magazine),
but I had/ have trouble believing it.  Has it ever *really* been "proven"?
What's the original source?
-- 
Mike Maxwell
Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center
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