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The perfect runner [videorecording (DVD)].

CBC Learning, c2012.

DVD 796.42 P438 Doc

Human evolution.

Barefoot running.

Leg -- Mechanical properties.

Long-distance running.

Runners (Sports) -- Conduct of life.

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (45 min.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally broadcast on CBC television program The nature of things on March 15, 2012.

Public performance rights (before a non-paying audience).

Closed-captioned.

CBC Learning ; Writers, Niobe Thompson, Tom Radford ; Producer/Director, Niobe Thompson ; Music, John Sereda.

Host/Narrator, David Suzuki.

How did our ancestors survive the shift from trees to land? How did Homo sapiens evolve to dominate the planet? How did our ancestors hunt before they developed weapons? The answer, you'll be amazed to learn, is that humans became nature's perfect endurance runners. From Africa's Great Rift Valley to the highlands of Ethiopia, from the most remote place in Arctic Siberia to one of the world's toughest ultra marathons in the Canadian Rockies, anthropologist and host Niobe Thompson takes us on a journey that weaves cutting-edge science with gripping adventure, and asks what today's runners can learn from our evolutionary past. Finally understand the science and sport of barefoot running.

Documentary films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Thompson, Niobe, 1973-

Suzuki, David T., 1936-

CBC Learning (Firm)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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