Scientists can not explain why people are so physically weak





«If you shaved chimps and photographed his body from the neck to the waist, you could not at first glance to distinguish it from a man - says Kevin Hunt, director of human origins and evolution of primates in laboratories of the University of Indiana (USA). - Muscles of the two species are very similar, but the chimps as tall as a man, on average 2-3 times physically stronger. »

blockquote> It is not clear why we are weak in comparison with our closest view. Our muscle fibers are slightly less dense arrangement of muscles and a bit different, but this is not enough to explain why female chimpanzee is able to reverse the trunk ironwood, while, as a man of average parameters is unlikely to break off from him, even females. Throughout human evolution, as modern science can keep track of it, the man was rather weak view and scientists still can not give an explanation for this fact.

via factroom.ru

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