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Can a Human Outrun a Horse?

Aug 6, 202539:01Science & Medicine

This is a story about sweat, survival, speed, and the peculiar ways running may have shaped us as humans. Armed with a hydration vest, a dream, and paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman's endurance running hypothesis, fil...

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Can a Human Outrun a Horse? is an episode from Origin Stories by Meredith Johnson. This is a story about sweat, survival, speed, and the peculiar ways running may have shaped us as humans. Armed with a hydration vest, a dream, and paleoanth...

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Published Aug 6, 2025, 39:01 long, audio available.

Can a Human Outrun a Horse?

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