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Apr. 4, 2021 1:30 PM
We are what we eat, goes the old saying, and new research has revealed one of the deepest and oldest secrets of who we are as a species. Humans are natural born killers: super-predators designed by evolution to subsist mainly on the meat and fat of large animals, and genetically hardwired to hunt our prey into extinction, says a new study on the eating habits of prehistoric hominins going back 2 million years.
This meta-analysis collated information from some 400 previous studies, conducted over decades by unconnected scientists, and providing biological, genetic, archaeological and molecular data on the diet of our Stone Age ancestors.
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Sounds like it s time to grab your Speedos. The American author and journalist joined the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky to talk about coldwater swimming and why it s so good for us.
She said about Why We Swim: “The book is divided into these five sections, five different thematic ways of answering the question and survival, and then its well being and community and competition, flow and so the book is really a way to travel the world and ask people, extraordinary swimmers and ordinary ones, the answer to that question.
“There are so many ice swimmers, cold water swimmers in the book and I know that there are some coldwater swimming enthusiasts in the UK and Ram Barkai is a swimmer.