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The Surprising Science of Walking The earliest fossilised footprints of a human being were found at a saltwater lagoon in South Africa. They came from a woman some 117,000 years ago, proof that walking is something that ties us to our deep evolutionary past, that it is an activity as old as our species and unique to us as well.
As Shane O'Mara points out in In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration, his delightful and salient account of the centrality of walking to human life and history, we may not know what her life was like, but surely the sky above and ground underfoot feel much the same today as they did then.
"We humans, rightly and correctly, display a fascination with our origins," writes O'Mara. There may be no better way to indulge this fascination than to go out for a walk.
Even the quickest and most mundane walk can be rife with scientific, evolutionary and even spiritual significance in O'Mara's opinion.
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