Run for your life

Timothy Noakes () and Michael Spedding ()
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Timothy Noakes: Timothy Noakes is professor of exercise and sports science at the University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
Michael Spedding: Michael Spedding is a pharmacologist and lives at Le Vésinet, near Paris, France.

Nature, 2012, vol. 487, issue 7407, 295-296

Abstract: Humans evolved to run. This helps to explain our athletic capacity and our susceptibility to modern diseases, argue Timothy Noakes and Michael Spedding.

Date: 2012
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