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To: cogitator
Attributes in favor of running capability would be genetically favored even if the women didn't run much.

Wow. I had no idea that genes were so intelligent and possessed the sufficient mental capacity to perform analytic observations of their surrounding and make the necessary changes based upon their findings. :-)
19 posted on 11/18/2004 8:01:11 AM PST by mike182d
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To: mike182d
Wow. I had no idea that genes were so intelligent and possessed the sufficient mental capacity to perform analytic observations of their surrounding and make the necessary changes based upon their findings. :-)

They're not. However, mutations that are beneficial for a certain population in a certain location tend to survive in that population group.

44 posted on 11/18/2004 10:45:00 AM PST by Modernman (Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin)
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