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Modern man a wimp says anthropologist
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59D0BR20091014 ^

Posted on 10/19/2009 7:14:17 AM PDT by chessplayer

LONDON (Reuters) - Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.

Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to manhood.

Any Neanderthal woman could have beaten former bodybuilder and current California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm wrestle.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: evolution; exercise; godsgravesglyphs; health; muscles; resistancetraining; sourcetitlenoturl; strength; strengthtraining
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To: raptor29

ROFL!!! You`ve GOT to be kidding.


41 posted on 10/19/2009 7:48:39 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: pgyanke

He tho kute en menly


42 posted on 10/19/2009 7:49:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: chessplayer

Your average Roman soldier wouldn’t last a day up against a US Marine.


43 posted on 10/19/2009 7:49:46 AM PDT by HD1200
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To: chessplayer
Thousands of years ago, if a disease came along, only the strongest could survive and live to pass their genes along. Now, with the aid of modern medicine, even the weak can survive and be able to pass their genes along.

But we also have the ability to change our genetics, and that ability will improve over time.

44 posted on 10/19/2009 7:49:50 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: goodwithagun

Good on ya!

I’m serious.


45 posted on 10/19/2009 7:51:52 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (As our six year old Balloon Boy says, "I think I gotta puke.")
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To: Moonman62

“How many highways did Neanderthals build? How many rockets did they launch?”

Thats not the point. The point is that the human race is physically becoming weaker and weaker,.


46 posted on 10/19/2009 7:52:01 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: fortunate sun

you might be good but like I said .
Most men in the Boston area/north east I found were like girlie men, not sure if it was because they were mainly students at these expensive schools but honestly from my experience the north east seems to have the most of the girlie men.

I like how you said the important things, I agree with that.

we have what you do not ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, alligator hunting.

There is a saying here.
The north part of FL is still the old south and we’re proud of it.
The southern part of the state is the north


47 posted on 10/19/2009 7:52:22 AM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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To: chessplayer

All these people that were so much stronger than us left notarized statements to that effect did they?

Serously now, it was not a case of them being “stronger” it was a case of the strongest surviving. The weak died off. They had little support in a world of eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.

Good Lord. Where do they find guys willing to write stuff like this.


48 posted on 10/19/2009 7:54:50 AM PDT by HD1200
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To: chessplayer

you write: “Thats not the point. The point is that the human race is physically becoming weaker and weaker,.”

That is not the case; it is a case of the weaker & weaker now surviving in a world that has largely been tamed of the danger that decimated earlier peoples.


49 posted on 10/19/2009 7:56:48 AM PDT by HD1200
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To: chessplayer
I believe you're thinking of muscles rather than accomplishments.

Why has the human life expectancy increased so much over the past couple of centuries if we are getting weaker?

50 posted on 10/19/2009 7:57:08 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: manc

I’ve been called gay (jokingly I think) because I get my hair cut every week.

It doesn’t bother me in the least, but is it gay to maintain a clean-cut look?


51 posted on 10/19/2009 7:58:19 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA ("Henceforth, you shall be known as...'Nobel Obama'".)
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To: chessplayer

Neanderthals, hiding in a cave while the animal kingdom ruled the day.


52 posted on 10/19/2009 8:02:13 AM PDT by raptor29
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To: goodwithagun
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Speaking of “-scaping” the trend with women seems to be devolving into prepubescence. IMO, yucky.

53 posted on 10/19/2009 8:03:42 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA ("Henceforth, you shall be known as...'Nobel Obama'".)
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To: Moonman62
Does this Clown consider the men fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq wimps?
54 posted on 10/19/2009 8:04:38 AM PDT by JimC214
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To: JimC214

No, this clown simply buys into every leftwing criticism of modern society that comes along. And the clown is likely a wuss himself, which is why he buys into the flawed notion he’s pushing in this thread.


55 posted on 10/19/2009 8:08:10 AM PDT by raptor29
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To: GOPsterinMA
It doesn’t bother me in the least, but is it gay to maintain a clean-cut look?

As the Chinese philosopher Liau Tang said, "Happiness is being able to get your hair cut every couple of weeks and watching your industrious neighbor take a tumble off his roof."

56 posted on 10/19/2009 8:09:34 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (As our six year old Balloon Boy says, "I think I gotta puke.")
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To: HereInTheHeartland
Why is the guys one arm so much bigger than the other?

I swiped the picture from an thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364770/posts) about him. He's a champion arm wrestler, so I suppose he just exercises that arm.

57 posted on 10/19/2009 8:21:49 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Soon everyone will win a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George Bush...well, except for George Bush.)
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To: raptor29

Being a real man means much much more than just having muscles and drinking beer by the keg and being able to kick the living shit out of somebody.


58 posted on 10/19/2009 8:22:41 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Ev Reeman

Perhaps...but as a 285lb guy who’s been lifting weights for 25 years and trains with a muay thai fighter 4x per week...there’s a certain level of satisfaction to be derived from having the ability to kill someone with your bare hands


59 posted on 10/19/2009 8:25:31 AM PDT by Skip Ripley
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To: chessplayer

In a battle of brains v. brawn, brains will win everytime, as long as it’s not within arm’s length of brawn.


60 posted on 10/19/2009 8:26:32 AM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Now fully qualified to receive the Nobel Peace Prize!)
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