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« The extraordinary stupidity of Ron Fournier | Main | Wrought and Wrong » SymmetryI hate running. It makes my lungs hurt. It makes my head hurt. It's just horrible all around. But i'm shockingly a decently speedy sprinter (as compared to other non-athletes such as myself). I guess my knees are just more symmetrical than fnord12's. In the new work, published November 17 in PLoS ONE, Rutgers University evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers and his colleagues measured the knees, ankles and feet of 73 elite Jamaican track and field athletes, including Olympic runners and one world champion. The researchers also examined the same body areas of 116 nonathlete Jamaicans of comparable age, sex and weight. Course, after about 200 meters, i'm about ready to lay down and die, so the victory is a little tainted. By min | November 20, 2014, 9:07 AM | Science |