Our bodies are 200,000 years old.
Genetically, physiologically, anatomically, we are
undistinguishable from the first Homo Sapiens ever to have walked the earth.
Among the animal kingdom we are almost unparalleled in
our capacity to move our bodies in space. We may not be the strongest or run
the fastest, but we can climb, crawl, brachiate, swim, invert and walk on our
hands, jump, flip, and roll… We are wobbly bipeds with a steady pronograde
past. Powerhouses and endurance machines. We are the ultimate generalists,
limited only by the rules of gravity and our imagination.
We once lived on an earth athletic. We once depended on
movement to survive: to hunt, to chase, to escape, to fight, to gather. We used
to be lithe and active, but the world has moved on... And whilst our biology
may be stuck in the past of a common ancestor, we have made our surroundings
comfortable and risk-free. We have become clumsy and sedentary.
