Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport

so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now.

And now your host, Tina Muir.

Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast.

Thank you for taking the time to tune in today.

I know you have a number of ways you could spend your time, so it really means a lot that you've chosen to listen.

Sometimes you talk to someone whose passion just shines through through their words.

This was definitely the case with today's guest.

He was incredibly knowledgeable about the evolution of running

and explained just why we're so good at running as human beings,

despite what some people think.

Usually we as runners are referred to as the crazy ones, especially those of us who are marathon and ultra-marathoners.

But our guest today explains how those who are not running are actually the crazy ones and how our bodies have evolved

over the years to be great endurance runners.

You know we like to think of ourselves as the running resource without the fluff and that is exactly

what this podcast is. We go into detail and give

you something to really think about rather than just going over the same topics

over and over. Today our guest is Dan Lieberman, also known as the

Barefoot Professor. He is the Professor of Human Evolutionary

biology at Harvard University and also the chair of the

Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard.

Dan won the parody, the IG Nobel Prize in 2009, which is a parody of the Nobel Prize for unusual or trivial achievements in scientific

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