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 RebelSteve33
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 Re: Human vs. Chimpanzee Strength  [Re: LOBO]
#746993 - 07/15/02 01:26 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Human vs. Chimpanzee Strength [Re: RebelSteve33]
#747220 - 07/15/02 05:24 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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LOL, good answer.
Here's another consideration. Chimps, while capable of moving fast on the ground, are no great shakes in running distances. Their whole defense strategy is based around a quick mad scramble to a tree, up the tree, and then screech at the predator down below and throw things. In Chimps, the arm is about 50% of the movement mechanism, and hence gets worked consistantly at a considerably higher leval then is the case for humans. You don't think carrying your body weight is work, try walking on your hands for a distance. Or do a lot of dips.
Humans are truely bipedal. And as such, our leg muscles are much stronger then those in are arms. After all, the legs are in constant use among humans to support our weight (plus anything we might happen to be carrying, something that being bipedal makes possible to a greater degree then is at all possible for chimps).
In a short dash, a chimp is much faster then a human. But if one is talking about covering a signifigantly larger distance, a human will easily outrun a chimp.
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There should be more chimps in the Olympics... you know, to add a little diversity, they're so species-biased now.
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#747553 - 07/15/02 08:20 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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chemkid
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 Re: Human vs. Chimpanzee Strength [Re: ]
#748606 - 07/15/02 03:43 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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That's ridiculous.....200 years is a blink of the eye in evolutionary terms. Not enough time to have any developement what so ever. However I do agree with you that for the most part blacks have superior strength and stamina. Whites for the most part have superior intellect. Of course this is an extreme generalization at best. There are very smart black people and very good white athletes. Instead of being politically correct and trying to prove everyone is the same, lets embrace the differences between races or sexes and accept them. There is no problem in believing that there are differences, the problem comes in thinking that as a people you are better than another group of people. All races and both sexes are beautiful with much to offer the world.
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Re: Human vs. Chimpanzee Strength [Re: chemkid]
#748655 - 07/15/02 03:55 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Unfortunately there was a time when blacks were treated as livestock and slave owners actually arranged pairings to increase physical strength and endurance of their children. Jimmy the Greek got fired from TV (ABC?) for pointing this out.
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llib
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Re: Human vs. Chimpanzee Strength [Re: chemkid]
#748683 - 07/15/02 04:05 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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a little known fact scientifically speaking, for fear of being politically incorrcet, is that blacks possess a higher percentage of fast twitch muscle fibers in muscle sthan whites.
fats-twitch- power
slow twitch-endruance
however, i have not reconciled why some of the africans win the ultra ultra long marathons , like th ethiopians, possibly because they have to run great distances to deliver information and that ha sbeen built into their systems.
and again, when i observe a black athletes calf , i notice, while i cant measure it a larger moment arm than whites. This could also explain why they can typically jump higher than whites.
again akin to a cat, a cat can jump into the air roughly 5-6 times its height
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Re: Human vs. Chimpanzee Strength [Re: llib]
#748841 - 07/15/02 04:55 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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In responce to your post about the black race being able to run faster and have more stamina than whites, look at maurice green, I am to believe there is an extra muscle of some sort or a longer extension of the calf muscle which gives them than extra jump or faster run. If you look at a fully delevolped body builder that is black his leg will be much more defined. However you look at a whites and it is more stalky, thick and i dunno just my observation. But one good way people from ethopia and other countries train for running is in the mountains. Training in higher altitude creates a need for more red blood cells thus in turn creating more "carriers" for oxygen. When you come down from that altitude and run in the olympics or somewhere you are not in need of those extra red blood cells but they are still there and can provide a greater capasity for endurance for your muscles allowing them to run longer, harder, and faster.
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Re: Human vs. Chimpanzee Strength [Re: ArisEve]
#748869 - 07/15/02 05:01 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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agreed altitude training will help develop the efficiency of the hemoglogin /oxygen carrying capacity and its abiliy to convert it efficiently to myoglobin usgae intracellularly
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Re: Human vs. Chimpanzee Strength [Re: Swami]
#751109 - 07/16/02 01:34 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Our brain is bigger,didn't need all those muscles to get by.
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