Scitoon on How Human become long runner

Scitoon on How Human become long runner

In a new paper, published in the September 12 issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report on studies of mice engineered to lack gene, called CMAH, and resulting data that suggest the lost gene may also have contributed to humanity's well-documented claim to be among the best long-distance runners in the animal kingdom

Reference: Oker-blom et al(2018)  Human-like Cmah inactivation in mice increases running endurance and decreases muscle fatigability: implications for human evolution Proc. R. Soc. B 285 20181656 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1656. Published 12 September 2018